Cassini Spacecraft to Dive Into Water Plume of Saturn Moon

U.S. Newswire, March, 2008

To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS

Contact: Dwayne Brown, Headquarters, Washington, 1-202-358- 1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov; or Carolina Martinez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., 1-818-354-9382, carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov, both of NASA

PASADENA, Calif., March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12.

The spacecraft, orchestrating its closest approach to date, will skirt along the edges of huge Old-Faithful-like geysers erupting from giant fractures on the south pole of Enceladus. Cassini will sample scientifically valuable water-ice, dust and gas in the plume.

The source of the geysers is of great interest to scientists who think liquid...

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