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Originally posted by internos
The only facet of the geyser theory that doesn't convice me, is that the jet seems to come right from the center of the body, and that looks to be a odd coincidence, to say the least, even if this could be explained with the speed of the body edmitting the "jet":as quick the body is travelling, as more the jet would appear to be centered behind it.
It was about a year ago that we reported on NASA’s quest to resolve the mystery of the high-speed jets erupting from the surface of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. The jets are focused on the south polar region of the moon, which was supposed to be the coldest place on a long-dead body. Enceladus is just 504 kilometers in diameter – too small to support significant internal heating. NASA scientists, however, work within a narrow frame of reference. If dynamic activity observed on planets, moons, and comets cannot be explained by solar radiation, just about the only thing left to account for it is something going on beneath the surface.
Originally posted by squiz
BTW there are several things wrong with NASA's explanation of the plumes from Enceladus, no Mike they are not geysers, as I mentioned before it's an electrical discharge.
Although I can't be certain that is what we are seeing but it does indeed have that appearance.
View of Saturn's E ring as seen in the ultraviolet by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera during the 1995 ring plane crossing.
Originally posted by squiz
As I understand it the voltage at Enceladus is not great enough to see the full extent of the plumes or to be visible to the naked eye at all.
Originally posted by mikesingh
So then what do we have here? As internos had rightly mentioned, these images were taken by Cassini's clear filters, CL1 and CL2 (If they were taken with UV, then NASA would have mentioned them as taken with UV1 and MT2 [Methane band], or UV2 and BL2 [Blue band] filters).
The link provided by internos shows a plume, but in UV. Are there any such phenomena that can be seen through clear filters? That would be interesting!