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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cassini general discussion and science results _ Enceladus geysers in the form of curtains?

Posted by: scalbers May 11 2015, 08:47 PM

This came out recently http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7550/full/nature14368.html. Are the jets more like folds of a curtain?

Posted by: Paolo May 12 2015, 05:31 AM

I read the Nature paper yesterday. then I saw http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=8009&view=findpost&p=220245 and I am not convinced. if the jets were really the folds of a curtain eruption, they should change of appearance during such a sequence, but they evidently did not

Posted by: climber Feb 13 2017, 10:04 PM

Anybody ever heard about this: http://danielmarin.naukas.com/2017/02/13/y-si-hubieramos-descubierto-los-geiseres-de-encelado-en-1980/
(It's in Spanish) It's said and shown the possibility that geisers where visible in one of the Voyager 1 pictures.
May be now the rigth place but I don't know where to post this.

Posted by: Phil Stooke Feb 13 2017, 11:43 PM

This is what you need:

http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/pdf/1603.pdf

Our own Ted Stryk's LPSC abstract on that topic. It is the source of that story.

Phil

Posted by: Floyd Feb 14 2017, 12:05 AM

Nice detective work Ted!

Posted by: vikingmars Feb 14 2017, 10:41 AM

QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Feb 14 2017, 12:43 AM)

This is what you need:
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/pdf/1603.pdf
Our own Ted Stryk's LPSC abstract on that topic. It is the source of that story.
Phil

Thanks a lot Phil for the link and CONGRATULATIONS to Ted for this very nice work

Posted by: rlorenz Feb 15 2017, 10:51 PM

QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Feb 13 2017, 06:43 PM)

http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/pdf/1603.pdf
Our own Ted Stryk's LPSC abstract on that topic. It is the source of that story.

Fantastic result, Ted! This result is of great interest to those planning Enceladus mission proposals right now...

Posted by: tedstryk Feb 15 2017, 11:35 PM

QUOTE (rlorenz @ Feb 15 2017, 11:51 PM)

Fantastic result, Ted! This result is of great interest to those planning Enceladus mission proposals right now...

Thanks, all. And if Enceladus mission planners find it interesting, wow! Unfortunately Voyager 2 was in the depths of its scan platform anomaly during the equivalent time during its flyby.

Posted by: tedstryk Feb 15 2017, 11:45 PM

Here is a link to my blog entry about it.http://planetimages.blogspot.com/2017/02/pre-discovery-images-of-plumes-of.html?m=1