Cassini Makes Successful Flight Through Plume Of Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Sunday, November 8, 2009 - 22:28
in Astronomy & Space
The Cassini spacecraft has weathered the Monday, Nov. 2, flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus in good health and has been sending images and data of the encounter back to Earth. Cassini had approached Enceladus more closely before, but this passage took the spacecraft on its deepest plunge yet through the heart of the plume shooting out from the south polar region. Scientists are eagerly sifting through the results.
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