Enceladus, named after a Greek mythology giant, is the sixth largest moon of the planet Saturn known for its icy surface which makes it the most reflective bodies of the Solar System. It’s not just the icy and the reflective surface that makes it eminent but the hydrothermal vents spewing water vapor and ice particles from an underground ocean beneath the icy crust of Enceladus. It has an icy, shiny, white and bright surface: The temperature is about -201 degrees C ( -300 degrees F) which makes it extremely cold. It the brightest object in the solar system as the solid ice surface reflects sunlight like freshly fallen snow.…
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Astronomy Q&A
So I was wondering what to different for my blog and it hit me. This one. I am going to pick 5 astronomy related questions from Quora and answer them! Serious ones and sometimes funny ones. (Maybe in the future I will take questions from the public and answer five out of them.) And it doesn’t end there. Q&A is going to happen twice in a month. One week about Astronomy and one week about Life Advices/Interesting Facts. So this week’s picked up questions: What would happen to your naked arm in the vacuum of outer space? Answer: Arms or any part of the body, you are going…
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Cassini’s demise – You will be remembered!
Cassini is now burning its way through Saturn’s atmosphere As most of you know, this Friday, September the 15th early morning Cassini spacecraft plunged itself to Saturn and ended its life. The Saturn exploration that has been touring the planet for 13 years has come to an end – mixed feelings. It has given, sent, help us learn so much about that planet. Scientists and engineers gathered at NASA’s JPL in California to wave goodbye to the spacecraft that has taught them so much about Saturn and its moons. Here is a short video highlights from NASA JPL: One of the Cassini’s project scientist at the NASA JPL commented that,…
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The last ride – Adieu, Cassini!
Image Credit: NASA Goodbyes are hard… No matter whom or what you bid Goodbye to. And it’s time to bid farewell to one of space science achievement – Cassini Spacecraft, which is on its course to doom. I write this article as an thank you and a tribute. Get ready for a wonderful ride. What is Cassini-Huygens? Cassini-Huygens is an unmanned spacecraft sent to study Saturn. On October 15 1997, Cassini was launched along with Huygens to orbit Saturn and the latter was scheduled to land on Saturn’s moon Titan to study and send data back to Earth. The spacecraft contained powerful cameras and could sense better…