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water from saturn

Post by deadly_habit » Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:17 pm

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In 2005, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft gave us an incredible view of Enceladus chuffing out fountains of water vapor and ice. This action creates an enormous halo of gas, dust and ice that surrounds this Saturnian satellite and enables the planet’s E ring. Now Enceladus is once again in the spotlight as the only moon in the Solar System known to significantly contribute to its parent planet’s chemistry.

Earlier this year, ESA announced that its Herschel Space Observatory had observed a huge torus of water vapor around Saturn which apparently originated from Enceladus. It spans approximately 600,000 kilometers across and runs about 60,000 kilometers deep, but more so than its size is what it appears to be doing… adding water to Saturn’s upper atmosphere. Because the vapor isn’t detectable at visible wavelengths, this observation came as revelation for the Herschel scope.

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Re: water from saturn

Post by hasezwei » Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:43 pm

spater in wace. yay!

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Re: water from saturn

Post by youthful_implants » Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:16 am

nice one! I think that's a really beautiful image too. I'm going to reblog it.
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