Here's Enceladus, an ice world that spews plumes of water vapor and gas from fissures in its surfacepic.twitter.com/6OWyMTEAco
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Here's Enceladus, an ice world that spews plumes of water vapor and gas from fissures in its surfacepic.twitter.com/6OWyMTEAco
There's hydrogen in the jets (seen here in gif) https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/13/15288648/nasa-announcement-ocean-worlds-live-stream … which makes scientists suspect there's geothermal vents in its oceanpic.twitter.com/8a1NQwmmFe
where there's heat, water, and chemical energy, there could be life.
Here's Titan, the largest moon and setting of a popular Kurt Vonnegut novel.pic.twitter.com/LbYrbUXsjo
The European Space Agency built a probe called Huygens that piggybacked on Cassini and landed on Titan
This is what Titan looks like from the ground. Yup that's an image from a moon orbiting a planet that takes 7 years to fly topic.twitter.com/kEC8JSQuxR
But the coolest part about Titan: Huge lakes made up of liquid methane and hydrocarbons. The stuff rains down from sky. Flows into rivers.
this is a lake on titan. It's bigger than Lake Huron and Michigan combined. And it's likely filled with liquid methane or something similarpic.twitter.com/zqIw1bU2TQ
If we could invade, err, visit Titan, we'd find more fuel than what's currently on the Earthhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24754-astrophile-titan-lake-has-more-liquid-fuel-than-earth/ …
The Saturn system is kind of like a mini solar system. Has variety of worlds that inform us abt the diversity of planets in the universe
In Saturn's rings, you can even see the beginnings of tiny new worlds forminghttps://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21433/cassini-targets-a-propeller-in-saturns-a-ring …
If we can find a geographic feature that exists in our solar system, it also means we may find it in the great "out there" of the universe
Anyway: that's why the Cassini mission and Juno (at Jupiter) are so cool. They let us know what's possible out there.
I'll leave you with Pan, a Saturn moon that's shaped like a dumpling / ravioli / pierogi / whatever stuffed dough thing you love the mostpic.twitter.com/tDIc0tEv2d
^ this tweetstorm is what happens when you've been researching space and have a pandora station that's 50% hans zimmer
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