Enceladus' Water Vapor Plume
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- 10 March 2006
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 311 (5766), 1422-1425
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1121254
Abstract
The Cassini spacecraft flew close to Saturn's small moon Enceladus three times in 2005. Cassini's UltraViolet Imaging Spectrograph observed stellar occultations on two flybys and confirmed the existence, composition, and regionally confined nature of a water vapor plume in the south polar region of Enceladus. This plume provides an adequate amount of water to resupply losses from Saturn's E ring and to be the dominant source of the neutral OH and atomic oxygen that fill the Saturnian system.Keywords
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