Enceladus Jet Sources |
Enceladus Jet Sources |
Oct 10 2007, 05:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
New press release by the imaging team:
Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources of Jets on Enceladus October 10, 2007 (Source: Space Science Institute) CICLOPS link to the release here. One thing I was curious about tiger stripe naming - why didn't they switch "Baghdad" and "Cairo" so we have a nice A,B,C,D progression? I can only imagine it was done on purpose, but why? -------------------- |
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Dec 18 2007, 01:37 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
Very interesting indeed.
No Saknussemm Sea? (called this in the movie, not the book.... but it sounds better) http://www.online-literature.com/verne/jou...enter_earth/30/ Cold Faithful - high temperature source for plumes http://www.planetary.org/news/2007/0322_Ch...est_a_Soup.html http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060506/bob9.asp The process that converts NH3 to N2 and also creates CH4 through serpentization, involves reaction with a silicate core. Hard to see how the salts would be segregated out of the plumes. Are the salts all in a non-ionized state and invisible? Can INMS detect salts? Frigid Faithful - low temperature source for plumes http://www.planetary.org/news/2006/1214_Ne..._Plumes_on.html Are the organics at the plume sources captured from other sources in the Saturn system? Or primordial leftovers, not endogenic? curiouser and curiouser.... Enceladus ain't easy.. Glorious.... Craig |
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