Cassini samples the icy spray of Enceladus' water plumes

The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission has directly sampled the water plumes jetting into space from Saturn?s moon Enceladus. The findings from these fly-throughs are the strongest evidence yet for the existence of large-scale saltwater reservoirs beneath the moon?s icy crust.

Enceladus? water plumes shoot water vapour and tiny grains of ice into space. They originate from the ?tiger stripe? surface fractures at the moon?s south pole, and create the faint E-ring, which traces th [...]

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