Cassini samples the icy spray of Enceladus' water plumes
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 12:30
in Astronomy & Space
The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission has directly sampled the water plumes jetting into space from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The findings from these fly-throughs are the strongest evidence yet for the existence of large-scale saltwater reservoirs beneath the moon’s icy crust.