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Enceladus’ Jets Reach All the Way to its Sea

Started by Waspie_Dwarf , Mar 22 2013 12:34 AM
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Posted 22 March 2013 - 12:34 AM

Enceladus' Jets Reach All the Way to its Sea


www.universetoday.com said:

Thanks to the Cassini mission we’ve known about the jets of icy brine spraying from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus for about 8 years now, but this week it was revealed at the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference outside Houston, Texas that Enceladus’ jets very likely reach all the way down to the sea — a salty subsurface sea of liquid water that’s thought to lie beneath nearly 10 kilometers of ice.

Enceladus’ jets were first observed by the Cassini spacecraft in 2005. The jets constantly spray fine particles of ice into space which enter orbit around Saturn, creating the hazy, diffuse E ring in which Enceladus resides.

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