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Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has an Atmosphere

Posted by samzenpus on from the quite-but-a-little-chilly dept.

Dimentox writes "The Mercury News reports that the international Cassini spacecraft has discovered that Saturn's moon Enceladus has a significant atmosphere, NASA said Wednesday. The icy moon's atmosphere may be created by volcanism, geysers or gases escaping from the surface or the interior, the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said. Excluding Saturn's giant moon Titan, which was already known to have an atmosphere, it's the first discovery of an atmosphere on one of the more than 30 moons that orbit the ringed planet."

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  1. Enceladus has atmosphere... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    but, alas, lacks ambiance. We give it one star.

  2. Second First by LakeSolon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Excluding Saturn's giant moon Titan, which was already known to have an atmosphere, it's the first discovery of an atmosphere...

    Excluding the first it's the first? We have a word for that. "Second".

    ~Lake

  3. First Post! by psychgeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Excluding the posts above, I *finally* have a first post.....