You sure the odds are right? #
Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 13:42 GMT
Those odds aren't exactly astronomical...
Coat please...
Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 13:42 GMT
Those odds aren't exactly astronomical...
Coat please...
Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 14:31 GMT
How on earth do they calculate the odds of such things? Is there a department at NASA calculating odds.
Shouldn't this story be under Odds and Sods?
Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 16:25 GMT
"The craft is due to pass the Moon next March..."
Unless there's a classified experimental engine on that thing, surely it's due to pass the _m_oon next March...
But hey, who named our moon "the Moon" anyway? You'd think they didn't know there were other ones...Oh.
Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 22:06 GMT
While you're being PEDANTIC, you might want to double check your spelling :)
Pendantry? Is that some sort of science dedicated to the study of necklaces?
Posted Friday 24th August 2007 10:49 GMT
I think that these jets are more like an electrical discharge, something like an Aurora, which could damage Cassini's electronics.
Watch this space.........
Posted Friday 24th August 2007 13:04 GMT
They certainly don't look like typical volcanic ejecta. Electrical discharge jets seem to have been suggested by others too, try a Google search for "Jets of Enceladus", and also "Fountains in vacuum: Enceladus"