Tuesday, November 29, 2005

The Fountains of Enceladus

"Cassini has observed fountain-like plumes from the warm fractures near Enceladus' south pole. This confirms what had been suspected from an image taken last January. And seems to point to these cryo-volcanoes as being the primary source of Saturn's E-ring. There are also more images available from Cassini's raw images archive."

source:http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/28/2320211&tid=160&tid=14

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