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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Oct 9 2010, 01:23 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Ahh...my bad, Gordan, misinterpreted what you meant by 'dome'. Just to be sure I'm on the same page now, would characterize what I think you mean as a halo or even aureole that completely encircles the moon(?)
EDIT: Wow. Does indeed look like there's an enrichment of material in what appears to be Enceladus' Hill sphere. The N/S elongation might be due to the effects of Saturn's magnetic field on what (I guess) highly diffused water vapor mixed with OH & H3O radicals. Again, wow!!! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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