Enceladus, a moon of Saturn

Ray McCarthy

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Enceladus is pretty interesting:
Wednesday, 28th October 2015 will be a close flyby of Cassini Probe

The flyby will also be among the last major activities for the Cassini probe. The joint NASA/ESA craft is running low on fuel and will be wrapping up its journey next year with a series of Saturn flybys. The "grand finale" will be its descent into Saturn's atmosphere, where Cassini will send back a final set of readings before disintegrating into the gas giant
See
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/26/enceladus_flyby_probe/

Nice photo here
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...aturn-life-spacecraft-ice-spray-a6708981.html

Also maybe
http://www.popsci.com/cassini-spacecraft-will-taste-enceladus-underground-ocean-on-wednesday
(broken here!)

Last month
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/cassini-finds-global-ocean-in-saturns-moon-enceladus

EDIT
in case anyone left that can't work URLs or search (Phones can be awkward though).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus
 
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Enceladus is one of my favorite moons, being basically like a much smaller, more energetic Europa. It's literally a massive snowball in space that spews water. And is just such a photogenic world.
 

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