Solar system: Saturn's tides control Enceladus' plume
Abstract
Data obtained by the Cassini spacecraft show that the plume of ice particles at the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus is four times brighter when the moon is farthest away from the planet than when it is closest. See Letter p.182
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- August 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1038/nature12462
- Bibcode:
- 2013Natur.500..155S