NASA photos showed Enceladus, Saturn’s moon – REGNUM

Washington, 27 October 2015, 10:25 – REGNUM In the Monday, October 26, NASA posted on its official website a high-quality picture of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, an image made from a distance of approximately 112,000 kilometers with the camera spacecraft “Cassini”, according to the agency’s website.

There, humans were able to see the surface of Enceladus in the immediate vicinity. As seen in the photo, the north of Saturn is covered impact craters, and to the south is almost no craters, mostly cracks, bumps.

IA REGNUM reminiscent of that tomorrow, 28 October, space probe for the second time to get closer to Saturn’s moon, the unit will take place at a distance of about 48 km above the south pole of Enceladus near its water emissions. The first convergence “Cassini” a celestial object on October 14.

In addition, NASA previously publish images of Saturn’s moon: the first convergence “Cassini” with the cosmic body. The photograph was taken from a distance of 1839 km. Scientists expect to see landscapes, painted with craters, but the picture was much more interesting: on one of the images, astronomers noticed something like a snowman. “Snowman” if waving flies from a distance of almost 2 thousand. Kilometers of space probes.

It should be noted that in May 2015, scientists from the Institute of Science of Carnegie in Washington thanks to information provided by the “Cassini”, revealed on Saturn’s moon Enceladus large amount of water and salt, which is an indication of the presence of geothermal activity at the facility, resembling similar processes in the world.

In addition, the researchers were able to study emissions from Enceladus, which suggest that the ocean can contain a lot of dissolved mineral salts.

So, opening on Saturn’s geothermal processes and study of emissions of the object, according to the scientists, making this space object even more attractive candidate for a second focus of life in the solar system.

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