Monday, October 10, 2005

Cassini Spacecraft To Image Dione--Stay Tuned!

Not long ago the most you might expect to see from Saturn's moons were some cool rock formations, maybe some methane or inert organic molecules on Titan. After the exciting discoveries made by the multi-national Cassini Spacecraft at Enceladus and the lakes of Methane it discovered at Titan the flyby at Dione promises to be anything but boring!
Stay tuned, NASA expects pictures any day now...tomorrow, in fact, if all goes well.

Getting back to Enceladus for a moment. You realize they discovered a geyser of water there, right? Oh yeah, big news. Because if a little rock like that, barely 300 miles in diameter, has water, active water no less, then the possibilities are even more endless than we ever dreamed they'd be.

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