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Heavens Above => Astronomy & Near Earth Phenomena => Topic started by: DataBot on March 20, 2012, 21:30:02 PM

Title: Cassini sees Saturn stressing out Enceladus
Post by: DataBot on March 20, 2012, 21:30:02 PM
Cassini sees Saturn stressing out Enceladus

Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have, for the first time, enabled scientists to correlate the spraying of jets of water vapor from fissures on Saturn's moon Enceladus with the way Saturn's gravity stretches and stresses the fissures.

Source: Cassini sees Saturn stressing out Enceladus (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120320163512.htm)