Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn moon geyser images

This is very interesting.


Article: The discovery that Enceladus probably harbours an ocean in contact with the rocky core makes this moon an even more important target in the search for life elsewhere in the Solar System. The rocks could furnish the ocean with the chemical ingredients thought essential for life.

"The kind of ecologies Enceladus might harbour could be like those deep within our own planet," Dr Porco said in an interview with Nasa's science website.


The habitable zone on Enceladus might be comparatively easy to access by future robotic space missions. Dr Porco added: "It's erupting out into space where we can sample it. It sounds crazy but it could be snowing microbes on the surface of this little world.

"In the end, it's the most promising place I know of for an astrobiology search. We don't even need to go scratching around on the surface. We can fly through the plume and sample it. Or we can land on the surface, look up and stick our tongues out."

[link to www.bbc.co.uk]




Last Edited by Chrit on 04/03/2012 12:55 AM

Thx for posting.

Awesome story!

Fascinating pictures, excellent find OP, thanks, really amazing how familiar we become with our Omniverse thanks to these spacecraft. Also, the geysers make me wonder if thats what is bulging up off the surface of Mars.

Fascinating pictures, excellent find OP, thanks, really amazing how familiar we become with our Omniverse thanks to these spacecraft. Also, the geysers make me wonder if thats what is bulging up off the surface of Mars.

Cassini Imaging Diary

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We are living in exciting time!

Brilliant pics!

very cool thanks for sharing

Its obviously lights from an Alien city

Saturn is 10 times further than the Earth so the size of the sun should be a little dot there, so how are these "geysers" seem to reflecting a lot of sunlight?

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