Saturn moon delights and baffles

**Maggy** · 05-09-2005, 00:21

This is a very strange one..It's got my imagination going..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4197686.stm

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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".

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"We confirmed the signature that there was an atmosphere but it is strange atmosphere," Professor Michele Dougherty, from the UK's Imperial College and the lead scientist for the magnetometer instrument, told BBC News.

"It seems to be concentrated at the south pole and the best way to match our observations is that you have almost a cometary jet coming off the south pole."

Cue for scifi stories I think..

AndrewJ · 05-09-2005, 05:34

Perhaps bacterial life forms are there with extreme farting tendacies? hence the localised atmosphere?

Seriously though sounds more interesting then Mars right now where they are on top of a hill, and heading to some marks in rocks.

**Maggy** · 05-09-2005, 13:51

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Originally Posted by Saxodriver

Perhaps bacterial life forms are there with extreme farting tendacies? hence the localised atmosphere?

Seriously though sounds more interesting then Mars right now where they are on top of a hill, and heading to some marks in rocks.

Yes it does seem to have become rather 'dull'.