16.12.08

Tiger Stripe Stories

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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Worth reading this news item on the Cassini homepage:
Close views of the southern polar region, where jets of water vapor and icy particles spew from vents within the moon's distinctive "tiger stripe" fractures, provide surprising evidence of Earth-like tectonics. They yield new insight into what may be happening within the fractures. The latest data on the plume -- the huge cloud of vapor and particles fed by the jets that extend into space -- show it varies over time and has a far-reaching effect on Saturn's magnetosphere.

2 comments:

Tinker said...

Perhaps a white tiger...

It just looks cold to me right now - but then everything does at the moment...

gnome said...

FREEDOM... Uhm, well, almost!

;)