Comments on: Cassini’s dive through the plume

By: ZorkFox

ZorkFox — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:58:45 +0000

I didn’t realize a subsurface ocean had been confirmed on Europa. When did that happen?

By: » Una bolsa de habitabilidad podría bullir bajo Enceladus | Maikelnai’s blog

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:03:22 +0000

[...] Phil Plait para Bad Astronomy] Hace unos pocos días escribí sobre como la sonda Cassini había atravesado columnas de agua helada en erupción, emitidas desde [...]

By: Annoying, yet exciting. « Communion Of Dreams

Annoying, yet exciting. « Communion Of Dreams — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:18:00 +0000

[...] few days ago I wrote about how the Cassini Saturn probe dove through water ice plumes erupting from the surface of the icy [...]

By: Stilgherrian · Enceladus from Cassini

Stilgherrian · Enceladus from Cassini — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:33:06 +0000

[...] Have I been too harsh on NASA? Last week the Cassini spacecraft zoomed past Saturn’s moon Enceladus and took these magnificent pictures. Hat-tip to the Bad Astronomy Blog. [...]

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:42:58 +0000

Barton, it’s good you figured the energy contribution from a 10km asteroid rather than a Texas-sized one, because the Texas-sized one could never hit us. Bruce Willis would save us from it at the last minute.

By: Gary F

Gary F — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:30:36 +0000

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001360/

John: That image comes from this link.

By: John Weiss

John Weiss — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:50:04 +0000

Apologies, I hadn’t realized that was an eclipse image. That is actually light being refracted through Saturn’s atmosphere, apparently. This also means that the light is very dim, so the shine from the moons may matter more (relatively) than when we’re dealing with sunlight.