Passing Through the Plumes; Enceladus Flyby on Wednesday
March 10, 2008 | Fraser Cain | Comments 0
Mark your calendars, this is going to be an amazing ride. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is going to make a flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus on Wednesday, March 12, 2008. And this time, the spacecraft is going to fly right through the mysterious geysers of water ice blasting out of the moon’s Southern pole. At its closest approach, Cassini is going to get within 50 km (30 miles) of the surface. Now that’s close!
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