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 11 2010, 12:51 PM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
So, it does seem to be something physical, not optical. From a gut feeling sort of thing, I would expect stuff that would hang around Enceladus to be more dense near the moon itself and not be so neatly uniformly distributed with such a sharp edge. Some (dynamical) simulations people have done for Enceladus (for those with access :S ) seem to show something similar :
http://www.scienceonline.org/cgi/reprint/311/5766/1416.pdf http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=A...mp;searchtype=a http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2010/pdf/2635.pdf (free) So, something else might be going on as well? weirdness stays |
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