The Fountains of Enceladus

EccentricAnomaly writes "Cassini has observed fountain-like plumes from the warm fractures near Enceladus' south pole. This confirms what had been suspected from an image taken last January. And seems to point to these cryo-volcanoes as being the primary source of Saturn's E-ring. There are also more images available from Cassini's raw images archive."

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as the bard Homer would say:

[jspoon]

Mmmmmm. Fountains of enchiladas.

Re:very intriguing

[HappyCakeOven]

We don't need to look for life in the volcanoes. These photos confirm what I've suspected all along: They're out there and they're ice fishing!

I you think The Fountains of Enceladus are cool

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait till they get pictures of The Geysers of Uranus.

Re:I you think The Fountains of Enceladus are cool

[afaik_ianal]

Why do so many slashdot moderators hate the Uranus jokes? I personally reckon their just Uranus retentive...

E-ring

[game kid]

This confirms what had been suspected from an image taken last January. And seems to point to these cryo-volcanoes as being the primary source of Saturn's E-ring.

I always thought those Defense Department guys were out of this world. I never thought they were from an outer planet.

Sounds like an Arthur C Clarke novel

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like a good title for an Arthur C Clarke novel.

Re:Amateur Analysis

[fireboy1919]

Also, remember that the images that JPL posts aren't scientific quality.

You got that right. IIRC, those are the images used in the "36% More Rock Ninjas Coming Out of the Earth than in Previous Decades" paper, presented in 1997.

Explains why they were able to post it so quickly, too. After all, it would take a lot of care to actually get things like that right. Maybe even more than peer review would require, since that's mostly concerned with the text. I'm sure that they recycled. Especially since I've spent the last eight years fighting hordes of rock ninjas.