Posted on 06/30/2018 4:43:05 PM PDT by Simon Green
Ice Pirates ping
“This makes the moon small enough to fit inside the borders of Arizona.”
Perfect size for a detention center.
Pop went out my nose a little when I read that.
Actually we'd appreciate all that ice ice. It's 104 at the moment.
Another report of "complex organics" but nothing about what species the molecules were or what instruments were used to detect them. Sounds like simple polymers but no details.
I didn't know we landed on Enceladus and did tests of ice samples.
Is there video?
Are the results of the tests published?
Previously, scientists had detected only simple organic (carbon-based) compounds, each less than about five carbon atoms in size, in the plumes of Enceladus. Now, researchers have detected complex organic molecules from the moon, including some at least 15 carbon atoms in size.
Pretty amazing that we can detect something 5 carbon atoms
in size, around another planet.
good point. they are just making this up!
Two mass spectrometers onboard the Cassini spacecraft, the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) and the Ion and Neutral Mass psecrometer (INMS), performed compositional in situ measurements of material emerging from the subsurface of Enceladus. These measurements were made inside both the plume and Saturn's E ring, which is formed by ice grains escaping Enceladus' gravity [1.1% of Earth's gravity]....Basically the spacecraft detected carbon-containing space dust with maybe a little hydrogen in it. Technically interesting, but far from meaning anything like alien space poop.
The mass intervals between the peaks suggest organic species with an increasing number of carbon atoms (C7 to C15), which we refer to as high-mass organic cations (HMOCs). While an interval of 14 u [unified atomic mass unit] would indicate the addition of a saturated CH2 group to an organic 'backbone,' the actual mass difference of 12.5 u indicates the presence of predominately unsaturated carbon atoms.
And from this, without testing samples, we know for a fact there are complex organics.
Is that right?
I don’t know how they determined the carbon molecules in the water in the Saturn moon geysers, but I guess it was done by absorption spectroscopy of some sort. The spectrum of light that has passed through a gaseous or liquid media will be somewhat blocked (absorbed) at specific frequencies by different molecules present in the media.
“...icy moons like Enceladus” right now a big ice cube on us here in Phx sounds wonderful.
Bring it on!
Must be time for the NASA budget.
I feel safe since Trump is trying to create a Space Force.
i posted a month ago that much of the photos coming out of NASA are fake. This is such a far stretch and probably wishful thinking, but nothing is proven at all.
Funny they would compare Enceladus, a moon with an ocean, to Arizona, a state which notoriously has no ocean-front property. (George Strait was lying.)
What’s the humidity?
Just one question.
How does the big ocean full of water on this small moon replenish itself?
CA....
For point of reference, the Pacific Ocean is (depending on the data source) about 714 million cubic kilometers (171 million cubic miles) of water, and Enceladus has about 10 million cubic kilometers of water...
Also of interest is that Earth is actually rather dry, taken in total:
http://www.businessinsider.com/water-space-volume-planets-moons-2016-10
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