headlines from saturn
The world’s too beautiful to blog about war every day. I thought I’d cover the Bigfoot story, but it was pretty lame. Google it if you care. So here’s a cool picture that Cassini took of Saturn’s moon Enceladus:
Cassini Pinpoints Source of Jets on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
In a feat of interplanetary sharpshooting, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn’s geologically active moon Enceladus.
New carefully targeted pictures reveal exquisite details in the prominent south polar “tiger stripe” fractures from which the jets emanate. The images show the fractures are about 300 meters (980 feet) deep, with V-shaped inner walls. The outer flanks of some of the fractures show extensive deposits of fine material. Finely fractured terrain littered with blocks of ice tens of meters in size and larger (the size of small houses) surround the fractures.
“This is the mother lode for us,” said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. “A place that may ultimately reveal just exactly what kind of environment — habitable or not — we have within this tortured little moon.”
Here’s raw images from Cassini.
Here’s one from Mars:
NASA Mars Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image of Martian Dust Particle
And one from little old Earth:
Photo Gallery: WhiteKnightTwo unveiling
OK, I may not be here again until Monday. Maybe I will. Have a good weekend either way.
