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#Enceladus: #Saturn: The unknowns of the water vapor plumes,David Grinspoon, Planetary Science Institute. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#Enceladus: #Saturn: The unknowns of the water vapor plumes,David Grinspoon, Planetary Science Institute. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/saturns-moon-enceladus-has-all-the-ingredients-for-life-in-its-icy-oceans-but-is-life-there/ar-AA1cyOfb


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This is CBS. I'm the world hotel Mars episode N with David Livingston,

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Dr. Space of the Space Show, and we're on our way to Enceladus,

0:45.4

one of the moons of Saturn, and the study by Cassini, the spacecraft, some years past,

0:52.4

now introduces the concept of a mega plume from Enceladus,

0:57.4

and what that means is extremely promising. We welcome someone to help us interpret these events.

1:04.4

David Grinspoon is an astrobiologist and a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute.

1:10.8

Most recently, he's the author or the co-author of a book about Pluto,

1:16.8

but right now we're headed back inside the outer planets to Saturn,

1:22.4

and Enceladus, because Cassini gives us an image of not just a cryovolcano venting from the

1:29.7

surface, the cracked ice surface. It looks like central parks ice rink used to look like in the old

1:37.3

days after people have been skating all day, but also what comes out of that cracked ice,

1:42.5

and what we learn and can learn from it about water, about the conditions of astrobiology in our

1:50.5

solar system. David, Dr. Grinspoon, a very good evening to you. Much of this information you have

1:57.4

read over the years, what is new to you about this mega plume? What are you looking for, David? Good

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