Cassini Huygens mission has been taken, to explore the planet Saturn, a group of seven years of NASA and European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency, a closer look at the current object of attention, and the small moon Enceladus. Enceladus is a moon of Saturn that is deeper than most scientists assumed that people who have died for the most part. With a very bright surface reflects almost 100 percent of the heat, and thus a very low temperature of 330 degrees Celsius below zero.
This surprising discovery that Enceladus, in contrast with the moon Mimas nearby ice-like geology, active and particulate emissions is driven by water vapor in the atmosphere of the South Pole. Enceladus is a tiny moon, about 300 miles radius of geological activity on the lunar surface in the size of Sarah puzzled scientists. The discovery of geological activity in every rare phenomenon so far. A big secret is not known why Enceladus is the cause of the enormous heat source that heats the ice. Scientists can only speculate that this is due to tidal activity or radioactive devices at this time.
At that time believed that the heat emitted from the wounds of a very deep mid-latitude tectonic boundary of the Antarctic. This is the approach of Cassini in July seems to imply. However, unlike the 286 kilometer orbit, Cassini is the closest final 109 km and confirms that the heat emitted from the reality of what is known as tiger stripes of Cassini. And tiger stripes cracked Cassini is 80 miles long parallel to each other in about 25 nautical miles. Cassini is only 314 kilometers. Found in the hottest place in the south polar region of the tiger stripes.
Cassini determines the existence of two types of ice Enceladus. He is an older variety of amorphous as a constant feature of the planet’s surface. However, the ice particles evaporate through the gap and the tiger bar fine crystalline particles. Ice is an average of 10 microns in size. These are tiny particles of ice to escape the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon which is a broad ring, and ring E.
On March 2008, Cassini is scheduled to visit again Enceladus. May be explained further light on the mystery behind Enceladus.
1) Explosion of Enceladus – NASA report – 07/12/05
2) Enceladus Pena – Jet Propulsion Laboratory – 12/06/05
3) The potential sources of R ring – Bill Arnett – 17/02/05
4) Saturn: month: Enceladus – NASA: Exploring the Solar System – 06/10/03
5) Tiger stripes of Enceladus is actually Cubs – NASA Releases
