NASA Releases First Images of Cassini's Dive Through the Geyser of Enceladus (examiner.com)

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NASA Releases First Images of Cassini's Dive Through the Geyser of Enceladus (examiner.com)

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 31, 2015 @04:42AM from the taking-a-quick-shower dept.

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.

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Golden shower by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 04:48 · Score: -1

That's an amazing golden shower!
More disgusting Republican... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 04:55 · Score: -1

corporate welfare.
1. Re:More disgusting Republican... by greenwow · 2015-10-31 05:00 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  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.
2. Re: More disgusting Republican... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 05:03 · Score: 0
  
  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.
3. Re: More disgusting Republican... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 05:10 · Score: 0
  
  Go away troll. /. is no longer a tech site. Stop wasting our time.
4. Re: More disgusting Republican... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 05:32 · Score: 0
  
  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.
5. Re:More disgusting Republican... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 06:20 · Score: 0
  
  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).
6. Re:More disgusting Republican... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 11:31 · Score: 0
  
  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.
7. Re: More disgusting Republican... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 20:47 · Score: 0
  
  ...but with Reddit falling apart at the seams, the SJWs have to go SOMEWHERE. Sadly, they've come here.
for fucks sake. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 05:22 · Score: -1

no images of the dive (*to be released later this week") and multiple video ads later..
fuck beta
fuck /.
I'm going to the red site.
Nasa's article page is weird by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 05:33 · Score: 3, Insightful

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?
1. Re:Nasa's article page is weird by belthize · 2015-10-31 12:05 · Score: 1
  
  It would not surprise me if most of the devs for that site had to either create that site and want to hang themselves afterward or upset some god awful Public Outreach Division Head who decided to take a roll in specifying how it should work.
Direct link to the NASA images by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 05:42 · Score: 5, Informative

There really is no need for blogspam that adds nothing to the original source. Boo.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/j...
1. Re:Direct link to the NASA images by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 08:38 · Score: 0
  
  It's not proper to link to a newsfeed. Sure, the Geyser story is currently at the top, but you have to think a bit more long term. At least the blogspam is an article, not a newsfeed, so its content isn't going to change over time.
2. Re:Direct link to the NASA images by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 10:19 · Score: 0
  
  Well done, I can't believe ./ can't moderate even a little on these.
3. Re:Direct link to the NASA images by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 10:48 · Score: 0
  
  What the hell are you talking about? That's not a "newsfeed," the URL refers to the specific story.
4. Re:Direct link to the NASA images by RockDoctor · 2015-11-02 00:49 · Score: 1
  
  Thank you for that, even if you are an AC. I was about to go hunting for exactly that page.
  Why don't people actually follow their tiny attention spans to the original sources? I mean, this is a site for "nerds", who you'd expect to be better at technical work than most people.
  
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  Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
5. Re:Direct link to the NASA images by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 05:27 · Score: 0
  
  The link to the original source was already given in the Slashdot summary. You just have to notice the gap in the underlying to see that there are 2 links.
Through the Geyser of Enceladus by turkeydance · 2015-10-31 05:51 · Score: 2

Hugo award winning title
I read the article and learned something by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2015-10-31 07:11 · Score: 1

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!)

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#DeleteChrome
1. Re:I read the article and learned something by Tablizer · 2015-10-31 12:59 · Score: 1
  
  Not just NASA
  Zarnian menu: "Another photo of a delicious human being with its delicious child."
  
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  Table-ized A.I.
Nicely airbrushed like usual by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 08:56 · Score: 0

And of course anything of real enlightenment was removed by NASA's photoshop experts.
NASA - Never a Straight Answer
fuck me by djupedal · 2015-10-31 10:27 · Score: 1

No images....it's now ok to lie about content upfront, thanks.
skip whittington's BS by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-31 11:33 · Score: 2, Informative

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/saturns-geyser-moon-shines-in-close-flyby-views
Geyser of enchiladas? Awesome! by DavidHumus · 2015-10-31 17:41 · Score: 1

Mmm, so hungry.
Very weird comments on a very interesting topic by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 10:08 · Score: 0

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!