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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."

6 of 224 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by thundercatslair · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is the greastest invention, please listen to the stars.

  2. Re:That's no moon! by LakeSolon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Apparently you get modded up for Star Wars quotes. Here's mine.

    ~Lake

  3. Excluding the first... by InfiniteWisdom · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Excluding the first 530089 members, I'm Slashdot's first member!

  4. mod d0w8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    every chance I got my resignation project somewhere of an 4dmiitedly vitality. Its the rain..we can be

  5. Isn't Europa a moon of Jupiter? by d0st03vsky · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just wonderin...

  6. Excludig all you who have posted before me ... by $0.02 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this is the first post.

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