Thursday, March 09, 2006

Saturn's moons are giving birth

Saturn's rings have their own atmosphere


Saturn's Moon Enceladus South Pole with stripes

Saturn's Moon Phoebe

A while ago the Cassini probe passed Saturn's moon Phoebe, and there was a story that the atmosphere was methane gas and there might be methane breathing life forms. Then the story disappeared.
In August 2005, BBC had the first news of Enceladus
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4197686.stm

Saturn moon delights and baffles
By Jonathan Amos BBC News science reporter

The tiger stripes mark the southern polar region of Enceladus (Nasa/JPL/SSI)

Space scientists say their discoveries about Saturn's moon Enceladus are stunning, if just a little baffling.
Using the instrument-packed Cassini probe, they have confirmed that the 500km-wide world has an atmosphere.
They have also seen a "hotspot" at the icy moon's south pole, which is riven with cracks dubbed "tiger stripes".
But the US and European scientists told a London meeting they could not yet explain fully the energetic processes driving all the activity on Enceladus.

Breaking news is that water has been found on Saturn's moon Enceladus. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11736311/
I muse that Saturn's moons are giving birth, and that the changes we interpret as climate related are really cosmic universe changes. I just KNOW that Phoebe has methane breathing life forms, I just KNOW it. And we're taught again and again and again that water = life. So that fact that NASA is even releasing this news about Enceladus is thought provoking. Read between the lines.

While part of me believes that the money for the Space Program should be used to clean up the planet, I love the pictures, and I love the cosmos, and otherwise, how would we know? Science has replaced spirituality, even though there is a point at which they intertwine these days.

I think it is great. I wanna meet an Enceladusian. :D

How 'bout you? Maybe they know Peace. That would be worth it.

I think they're Blue :D

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