Enhanced-color image from Cassini showing red streaks on Saturn’s moon Tethys
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
Posted on 07/29/2015 11:40:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
They stretch for long distances across the moon’s surface following the rugged terrain, continuing unbroken over hills and down into craters… and their cause isn’t yet known.
According to a NASA news release, “The origin of the features and their reddish color is currently a mystery to Cassini scientists. Possibilities being studied include ideas that the reddish material is exposed ice with chemical impurities, or the result of outgassing from inside Tethys. The streaks could also be associated with features like fractures that are below the resolution of the available images.”
The images were taken by Cassini during a flyby of the 660-mile-wide (1,062 km) Tethys on April 11, 2015 at a resolution of about 2,300 feet (700 meters) per pixel. They were acquired in visible green, infrared, and ultraviolet light wavelengths and so the composite image reveals colors our eyes can’t directly perceive. The combination of this and the solar illumination needed to image this particular area as the spacecraft passed by are why these features haven’t been seen so well until now.
“The red arcs really popped out when we saw the new images,” said Cassini participating scientist Paul Schenk of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. “It’s surprising how extensive these features are.”
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Jamaican Beer?
chemtrails for the agenda 21 enforcement.
Aha! Your theory is better than mine! :-)
-"Enhanced-color image from Cassini showing red streaks
Poor Photoshopping? Bad CGI?
Looks like a grape juice accident.
Unsupervised Alien child w color crayon?
or
Element, such as iron, interacting w water and whatever atmosphere is present.
It wouldn’t be unusual for such an element to have geological forces drive these alignments.
Not just red lines. Look at the large version of the photo, there are all sorts of similar lines crossing the surface in the same way.
Yup. Crayons on the wall.
Been there, cleaned that.
Your grandkids are drawing with crayons on the monitor?
I had a dog once who’d - maybe some moon creature?
They look like red streaks on the moon’s surface to me (SARC)
Fractured crust, fluid underneath leaked out and refroze. Could be like that for a billion years without change.
Or, my Children’s Librarian had a summer project with the kids. It’s the same color scheme as the carpet in the Kid’s area after the last event.
If you’ve got scarlet streaks on your Tethys,
it means you have an STD and need to see a doctor.
FAST!
Solar Transmitted Disease.
I don’t have Tethys.
I have Ovaryths.
Skid marks?
excellent!!
HOORAY, BEER!
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