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NASA Releases First Images of Cassini's Dive Through the Geyser of Enceladus (examiner.com)
MarkWhittington writes: NASA released the first images from Cassini's dive two days earlier into the geyser that is erupting water and ice particles through fissures in the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus from what is presumed to be a salty ocean underneath. The space probe, which has been orbiting Saturn for the past several years, survived the encounter. Scientists are eagerly awaiting the data that will be returned from the passage, which should be made available in a week or two.
Its sensors can detect hydrothermal activity. Many scientists believe that life first evolved on our planet in active hydrothermal vents. It will let us know if that moon can support life.
The moderation here is a joke now. A ridiculous political post isn't moderated down, but a post about the article is marked as a troll.
Go away troll. /. is no longer a tech site. Stop wasting our time.
But the military industrial complex is making so much profit from this. So much profit.
They then use that money to oppress women and minotities.
There are 19 other stories below, wasting bandwidth. When you scroll down to another story, the URL in the address bar changes, which totally breaks user expectations. It's overengineered crap, which is probably a sign that their webdev team is too big or too well-funded. What's wrong with a normal hyperlinked website? Too boring for web developers?
There really is no need for blogspam that adds nothing to the original source. Boo.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/j...
Hugo award winning title
It would be nice if NASA would come up with something other than the stalking iPerceptions, Inc. JS in web pages to get stats. The linked page is completely broken with JS turned off, just a black screen.
They certainly are doing a bunch of great science. Where's the space weather and Earth-image data from DSCOVR?
It would be interesting to see what the infrared or other imagers can see towards Earth when CMEs from things like filament eruptions head this way. It might be able to provide more regional info on where disturbances are most intense, whether they be geomagnetic/current (grid-bumps, marine critter strandings), or atmospheric (wind-shear, hail, thunderstorm, heat burst, dust storm etc.). Granted the warning from a million miles out would likely be no more than an hour. Solar breeze due around Nov 4th or so (recurring feature last felt around Oct 7-11th).
The NASA Style Guide apparently requires that the word "icy" be used at least once in every photo caption containing the name "Enceladus".
(Oh, and the photos are seriously cool!)
#DeleteChrome
And of course anything of real enlightenment was removed by NASA's photoshop experts.
NASA - Never a Straight Answer
No images....it's now ok to lie about content upfront, thanks.
How does this have anything to do with the GOP? In fact, it was Clinton's admin that kept this alive when the GOP wanted to kill it.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/saturns-geyser-moon-shines-in-close-flyby-views
Mmm, so hungry.
...but with Reddit falling apart at the seams, the SJWs have to go SOMEWHERE. Sadly, they've come here.
Completely aside from the extremely odd, off-topic commentary... I believe that Cassini does not have the right kind of sensors to tell if there are life-signs in the geysers. There is another potential NASA mission specifically to fly through the jets of gas and ice particles, which will be able to narrow the possibilities much more effectively.
Though until we get there and take photos under the ice of the gentle, intelligent gasbag medusoids who float upside-down, walking on the underside of the ice shell, we'll never know for sure!