Source: MRO HiRISE on You Tube
NASA's MRO teasm has released this fantastic video with images received from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Enjoy it!
Original movie: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/media/clips/HiRISE-26-Jan-2011-1080.mov
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A Fizzy Ocean on Enceladus
Source: NASA Science News
A Cassini image of vaporous, icy jets emerging from fissures on Enceladus.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI; Mosaic: Emily Lakdawalla
For years researchers have been debating whether Enceladus, a tiny moon floating just outside Saturn's rings, is home to a vast underground ocean. Is it wet--or not? Now, new evidence is tipping the scales. Not only does Enceladus likely have an ocean, that ocean is probably fizzy like a soft drink and could be friendly to microbial life.(read more)
