Enceladus Jet Sources |
Enceladus Jet Sources |
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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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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8784 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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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 ![]() |
The N/S elongation might be due to the effects of Saturn's magnetic field I wonder if it's merely the effect of particles being more stably bound to Enceladus in those directions than in the orbital plane. If it's linked to the Hill sphere at all, that is. -------------------- |
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