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Using Shadows To Measure the Geysers of Enceladus

Posted by Soulskill on from the easier-than-breaking-out-the-yardstick dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "A lot of folks are posting about the amazing new pictures of the icy moon Enceladus returned from the Cassini spacecraft. However, one of them shows the shadow of the moon across the geyser plumes. This has been seen before, but I suddenly realized how that can help determine the geysers' locations, and I thought Slashdot readers might be interested in the general method."

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  1. I want my 5 minutes back by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This has been seen before, but I suddenly realized how that can help determine the geysers' locations, and I thought Slashdot readers might be interested in the general method.

    Hmm, at first, this looks like you're just a Slashdot whore. But I may be wrong, you may be on to something. So I follow the link, read your masterpiece, thinking "this is bloody obvious", then TFA arrives grandiosely at this:

    In reality itâ(TM)s tougher than this, but in essence itâ(TM)s doable. In fact, Carolyn told me this has been done in Enceladus images before!

    So, in essence, you just had a brainfart and wanted to share it with us?

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