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Cassini Passes Through Ice Plumes of Enceladus
The Cassini spacecraft dove within 30 kilometers of Saturn's moon Enceladus to analyze the ice plumes it emits. Cassini sniffed and collected chemical data from particles ejected from the moon's surface. It also flew directly through the ice geysers to sample them. Scientists are looking for impurities in these water-ice plumes to understand their origin.
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Released on 13 October 2011 Wide field view of MACS 1206 (ground-based image) See it as a poster -
Released on 13 October 2009 Wide-field view of the region around NGC 2623 (ground-based image) See it as a poster -
Released on 13 October 2025 A well-studied spiral See it as a poster -
Released on 13 October 2021 An aurora streams over the Earth as the International Space Station orbited 273 miles above the southern Indian Ocean See it as a poster -
Released on 13 October 2024 In Ghar, Algeria, in the Sahara Desert See it as a poster
In tropical astrology, 13 OCT 2008 falls under Libra (♎). The sign's window runs from 09-23 through 10-22. Libra is the only zodiac constellation named for an inanimate object, the scales of judgment. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 13 OCT 2008.