Saturn's amazing moon Enceladus

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Some of the best photos of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. Enceladus generates it's own internal heat, probably from tidal forces between Saturn, the Sun, and it's much larger sister moon, Titan. The Cassini spacecraft has made several close flybys in the past 4 years, and has noted cryovolcanism, where ice and organic matter jet into space. Music is "Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age" by Gustav Holst from the orchestral suite "The Planets". Photos downloaded from http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/enceladus_up_close.html

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Science & Technology

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• Enceladus
• Saturn
• Cassini
• Space

[railroadtrash09]

Wrap your melon around dis.... What if life was found there, and it was similar to early life on earth? Simple single-cell oganisms just like before the dinosaurs. Spooky....

[joeblow9000]

Indeed.

One of the best arguments for continued space exploration is to answer some basic questions about the origins of life. Did life emerge somewhere else in the universe and migrate here, or does it emerge when conditions permit? And to extrapolate from that, how common is life in the universe? Moons like Europa, Enceladus and others may contain the answers.

[askjiir]

@ku62jo62

I think your fake. You dont really exist.

[hiptojive]

beautiful music! Which musical selection is this?

[sn95mustang]

Excellent. Thank you for posting.

[ku62jo62]

fake

[AnthMartian]

Very nice selection of imagery.

This little moon is so fascinating, and worth a space mission in its own right, i wonder if one day we will ever get to see a dedicated lander on its surface, or an orbiter circling this amazing world.

I expect i will be very old and grey by that time, if it happens that is.

good work, and hopefully we have showed a new audience how exciting space exploration is.