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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Jul 23 2009, 09:24 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 237 Joined: 22-December 07 From: Alice Springs, N.T. Australia Member No.: 3989 |
A longer report at Physorg.com http://www.physorg.com/news167498118.html
Also ....."The fact that we found a lot of argon 40 also argues for liquid water," Lunine said. Liquid water most likely circulating through Enceladus' rocky core is the best explanation for all the argon 40 detected, he said. And there was (reconfirming earlier detection) ....."an abundance of carbon-bearing molecules, or "organics," entrained in the water vapor.......... (such) as methane, formaldehyde, ethanol and hydrocarbons." What's the limit of detecting/identifying heavier carbon molecules? Very interesting they have got this far in their analysis. Roll on the Nov flybys!! |
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