[X] My Assistant

[SigurRosFan]

Found at SpaceWeather:

--- Space artist Merry Wooten anticipated the discovery two decades ago:



Wooten had a hunch that Saturn's powerful tides might cause geothermal activity on Enceladus. Her painting of the resulting ice-geysers first appeared in a planetarium show, "When Worlds Erupt," in 1986. ---

I want more. Where are other Enceladus artists?

[Bill Harris]

That escape velocity is still 900 km/h or 560 mph, which is pretty quick. Once we know more about rates and volumes we can make estimates of the pressures involved.

--Bill

[helvick]

That escape velocity is still 900 km/h or 560 mph, which is pretty quick. Once we know more about rates and volumes we can make estimates of the pressures involved.

Which if my calculations are right would be enough to loft some water ~3200m on earth if we had no atmosphere to worry about. Some back of the envelope drag calculations lead me to believe that it would be lower than ~630m once you factor that in, probably a lot less since that's almost supersonic and I can't see a column of water maintaining any sort of integrity under those forces.

In any case these are pretty mean fountains, even if Enceladus is kinda small it takes a lot of oomph to kick something up at 250m/sec.