Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Cassini spacecraft researching more about the geysers spewing material from Saturn's icy moon

The flyby is an attempt to discover more information about this curious icy moon Enceladus.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080808-cassini-flyby.html

nice flyby map is located on this page
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/08/12/cassini-skeet-shoot-of-enceladus-a-success/


also check out the cool video that tells you more about the whole mission and brings you up to pace with the mission's agenda, findings and more (includes videos and superb photographic closeups to give you a better idea how unique this discovery is and how things keep getting even more wonderous)
http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=Enceladus_web

also more updates at the main cassini website
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

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