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Enceladus Jet Sources

ugordan View Member Profile	Oct 10 2007, 05:20 PM Post #1
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? -------------------- www.flickr.com/photos/ugordan

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2552 View Member Profile	Feb 10 2010, 07:54 PM Post #2
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 30-April 09 Member No.: 4754	Another story from space.com: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/ence...ter-100209.html ADMIN EDIT: Exobiology comments deleted per section 1.3 of the Forum Rules. Please take a moment to review them again. Edit: My apology for not reading the rules the first time, won't happen again.

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ugordan Enceladus Jet Sources Oct 10 2007, 05:20 PM

volcanopele Joe Spitale and Carolyn Porco have a paper in Natu... Oct 10 2007, 05:27 PM

belleraphon1 All.. I had seen this earlier in the AGU Abtract... Dec 17 2007, 10:38 PM

belleraphon1 QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Dec 17 2007, 05:38 ... Sep 6 2008, 03:13 PM

scalbers Interesting to see this sodium discussion continui... Dec 18 2007, 12:10 AM

belleraphon1 Very interesting indeed. No Saknussemm Sea? (cal... Dec 18 2007, 01:37 AM

DFortes Yet another Enceladus plume model Dec 18 2007, 01:27 PM

belleraphon1 Dfortes... Clathrate Faithful? (Although Frigid F... Dec 19 2007, 12:44 AM

DFortes QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Dec 19 2007, 01:44 ... Dec 19 2007, 07:17 AM

belleraphon1 QUOTE (DFortes @ Dec 19 2007, 02:17 AM) T... Dec 19 2007, 01:21 PM

nprev Interesting indeed. Did the Keck observations sear... Dec 19 2007, 12:59 AM

Zvezdichko http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features/feature20... Feb 8 2008, 07:17 PM

ustrax March 12 flyby description available at Ciclops. Mar 6 2008, 04:27 PM

scalbers Here's a nice powerpoint I came across about E... Mar 22 2008, 06:23 PM

MahFL From http://ciclops.org/index.php "And most e... Jun 13 2008, 01:53 PM

tasp Maybe . . . . no, probably not. Jun 13 2008, 03:26 PM

marsbug I have a feeling they will wait to release the res... Sep 11 2008, 11:25 AM

Vultur QUOTE (marsbug @ Sep 11 2008, 11:25 AM) I... Sep 13 2008, 01:31 AM

vexgizmo QUOTE (Vultur @ Sep 12 2008, 06:31 PM) I ... Sep 21 2008, 04:37 PM

dvandorn ...and according to some sources, Ganymede and eve... Sep 13 2008, 02:35 AM

ngunn Not forgetting Titan, where the solid ice crust ha... Sep 13 2008, 06:31 PM

tedstryk Speaking of the jets, check out this night side im... Sep 20 2008, 02:07 AM

scalbers QUOTE (tedstryk @ Sep 20 2008, 02:07 AM) ... Sep 21 2008, 06:58 PM

tasp Just curious if anyone knows if the R factor of sn... Sep 21 2008, 05:31 PM

marsbug I know I'm being impatient, and I know that th... Sep 24 2008, 10:16 AM

belleraphon1 All.. found the following paper online "Th... Sep 24 2008, 12:54 PM

marsbug They seem to have a good handle on the sodium cont... Sep 24 2008, 02:15 PM

belleraphon1 QUOTE (marsbug @ Sep 24 2008, 10:15 AM) T... Sep 24 2008, 02:37 PM

Juramike New article in Nature according to recent space.co... Jun 24 2009, 05:57 PM

Ron Hobbs In the Geophysical Research Abstracts, Postberg et... Jun 25 2009, 04:11 AM

Doc The current understanding of the geysers of Encela... Jun 25 2009, 06:42 PM

john_s A clarification- according to the "misty cave... Jun 25 2009, 08:30 PM

nprev John, just for baseline purposes, what's the l... Jun 25 2009, 08:38 PM

john_s It's gotta be tidal heat- radioactive heat isn... Jun 25 2009, 09:29 PM

nprev QUOTE (john_s @ Jun 25 2009, 02:29 PM) Th... Jun 25 2009, 10:56 PM

john_s Ice shell thickness is important, though the thick... Jun 26 2009, 06:30 AM

belleraphon1 This is not scientific, but I love the "misty... Jun 26 2009, 11:31 AM

Juramike Enceladus Wharrgarbl Jun 27 2009, 01:39 AM

nprev ...Yeah, that poor mutt might get one Wharrgarbl o... Jun 27 2009, 01:53 AM

marsbug Some interesting stuff at the planetary society an... Jul 1 2009, 12:45 PM

marsbug Interesting report on spaceref. Jul 16 2009, 12:22 PM

Ron Hobbs Ammonia, at last. Saturnian Moon Shows Evidence o... Jul 22 2009, 09:08 PM

HughFromAlice A longer report at Physorg.com http://www.physorg.... Jul 23 2009, 09:24 AM

Ron Hobbs QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Jun 26 2009, 04:31 ... Aug 26 2009, 05:29 AM

belleraphon1 Thanks for the heads up Ron!!! Slide ... Aug 26 2009, 12:22 PM

Ron Hobbs I am right there with you, Craig. Actually, I am d... Aug 26 2009, 11:51 PM

Stu Geyser-related story up on the BBC Sci Tech web pa... Feb 8 2010, 07:00 PM

2552 Another story from space.com: http://www.space.com... Feb 10 2010, 07:54 PM

alan Pardon the blast from the past. Anyone remember th... Apr 9 2010, 03:18 AM

volcanopele I doubt it. I suspect they are more related to th... Apr 9 2010, 05:48 AM

ugordan I suppose this is a good place to post this... I j... Oct 8 2010, 11:04 PM

nprev Hmm. Subtle, good catch! To me, the 'dome... Oct 8 2010, 11:23 PM

alan The dome appears to continue through the shadow an... Oct 8 2010, 11:42 PM

ugordan I can't see how it would be a lighting effect ... Oct 9 2010, 12:15 AM

alan Yea, thought about that after I hit post. Oct 9 2010, 12:55 AM

nprev Ahh...my bad, Gordan, misinterpreted what you mean... Oct 9 2010, 01:23 AM

ugordan QUOTE (nprev @ Oct 9 2010, 03:23 AM) The ... Oct 9 2010, 09:43 AM

remcook Yet another great spot, Gordan! And a beautifu... Oct 9 2010, 09:42 AM

ugordan QUOTE (remcook @ Oct 9 2010, 11:42 AM) El... Oct 9 2010, 09:46 AM

remcook Yeah, I don't know what angles these inner rin... Oct 9 2010, 10:08 AM

ugordan I don't know what I'd expect! That doe... Oct 9 2010, 10:20 AM

remcook I see a little bit of a ring, but indeed small con... Oct 9 2010, 10:25 AM

ugordan Perhaps the most compelling evidence that this is ... Oct 9 2010, 11:32 AM

ZLD I've just finished looking through tons of oth... Oct 9 2010, 06:29 PM

nprev Just a thought here: Maybe the halo boundary is ac... Oct 9 2010, 06:45 PM

brellis QUOTE (nprev @ Oct 9 2010, 11:45 AM) The ... Oct 10 2010, 05:49 AM

ZLD The only problem that I see with the halo is that ... Oct 9 2010, 06:57 PM

ugordan QUOTE (ZLD @ Oct 9 2010, 08:57 PM) The on... Oct 9 2010, 07:09 PM

nprev Maybe. Enceladus' emissions seem to end up spl... Oct 10 2010, 05:59 AM

brellis Got it! A halo would imply a wide emission of ... Oct 10 2010, 06:09 AM

ZLD A trailing atmosphere, similar to a tail and coma ... Oct 10 2010, 08:17 AM

nprev Let's step back a bit & look at the situat... Oct 10 2010, 08:55 AM

remcook So, it does seem to be something physical, not opt... Oct 11 2010, 12:51 PM

ugordan QUOTE (remcook @ Oct 11 2010, 02:51 PM) S... Oct 11 2010, 01:27 PM

remcook Indeed. Personally, I'm not convinced by any p... Oct 11 2010, 02:54 PM

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