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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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…