What is Enceladus? Well as the article says...
I just happened to be playing Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond when I started looking at the pics... Dark Side of the Moon might been the first obvious choice but I think SOYCD was more fitting.
Thoughts (on the photos), comments?
Some very stunning photos to be had here.Saturn's tiny, icy moon Enceladus has recently been visited by NASA's Cassini orbiter on several very close approaches - once coming within a mere 25 kilometers (15 miles) of the surface. Scientists are learning a great deal about this curious little moon. Only about 500 kilometers wide (310 miles), it is very active, emitting internal heat, churning its surface, and - through cryovolcanism - ejecting masses of microscopic ice particles into Saturnian orbit.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/enceladus_up_close.html
I just happened to be playing Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond when I started looking at the pics... Dark Side of the Moon might been the first obvious choice but I think SOYCD was more fitting.
Thoughts (on the photos), comments?