According to NASA, the picture of the jets was taken from afar. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Enceladus (313 miles or 504 kilometers across). North is up. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini ...
Read More »Saturn Moon May Have Tipped Over, Cassini Finds
Researchers with the Cassini mission found evidence that the moon’s spin axis — the line through the north and south poles — has reoriented, possibly due to a collision with a smaller body, such as an asteroid, according to NASA. ...
Read More »Small Saturn moon has most conditions needed to sustain life, NASA says
A tiny moon of Saturn has most of the conditions necessary for life, Nasa announced on Thursday, unveiling a discovery from an underground ocean that makes the world a leading candidate for organisms as humans know them, Joinfo.com reports with ...
Read More »Study Shows Heat Below the Icy Surface of Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
This suggests that Enceladus’ ocean of liquid water might be only a couple of miles beneath this region — closer to the surface than previously thought, Joinfo.com reports with reference to NASA. The excess heat is especially pronounced over three ...
Read More »Cassini shows dichotomy of Saturn’s moon Enceladus
Cassini spacecraft took this photo of the sixth-largest moon of Saturn at a distance of approximately 41,000 miles (66,000 kilometers) from Enceladus with its narrow-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2016. Image scale is 1,310 feet (398 meters) per pixel, Joinfo.com ...
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