Sunday, June 28, 2009

Bizarre mysterious lines on Saturn's moon Enceladus

Scientists still have many questions about how these structures called Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus form and then loft jets of ice particles into the space around the moon and creating one of the rings of Saturn. This photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows much detail.

6/28/2009
(if not this date go to this link/website and then go to archives link which is on the APOD page lower portion)
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

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