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Old 12-03-2008, 07:46 AM
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Cassini plans to fly through a geyser on Enceladus

This is from Nature this morning:

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/0803...l/452139a.html

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Old 12-03-2008, 07:56 AM
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How very, very cool.

What a thrill it would be to work on the Cassini team.
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Old 12-03-2008, 06:09 PM
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The BBC has the story too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7289670.stm
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Old 04-04-2008, 07:59 AM
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Cassini has done a pass through the geyser on Enceladus

This news in brief is from Nature Physics Portal:

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080402/pdf/452516b.pdf

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Old 04-04-2008, 09:48 AM
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Thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten about this!

I found this NASA blog interesting: http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/Encela...sts/index.html

"... this is just the beginning- there are seven
more Enceladus flybys to come in the next two years."
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