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  Happening Now | NASA Probe Diving through Saturn Moon's Icy Plume Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 13:18 -0500
    Re: Happening Now | NASA Probe Diving through Saturn Moon's Icy Plume jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-28 20:33 +0000

#528749 — Happening Now | NASA Probe Diving through Saturn Moon's Icy Plume

NASA Probe Diving through Saturn Moon's Icy Plume
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-probe-to-dive-through-saturn-moon-s-icy-plume/


> On Wednesday (Oct. 28), NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zoom just 30
> miles (50 kilometers) above Enceladus, flying through and sampling
> the plume of material that erupts from the satellite's south polar
> region.
>
> This plume is thought to originate from Enceladus' underground
> liquid-water ocean, so Cassini's onboard sample analysis should shed
> light on the moon's potential to host life, mission team members
> said. [Watch how Cassini will sail through Enceladus' icy plumes]
>
> "On Wednesday, we will plunge deeper into the magnificent plume
> coming from the south pole than we ever have before, and we will
> collect the best samples ever from an ocean beyond Earth," Curt
> Niebur, Cassini program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington,
> D.C., said during a news conference today (Oct. 26).
>
> Cassini is not equipped to search for signs of life, but the probe's
> measurements should help researchers assess the habitability of
> Enceladus' global ocean, Niebur added.
>



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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> NASA Probe Diving through Saturn Moon's Icy Plume

What breathless nonsense for a "science" article, spamming shit head.


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