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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>While we're in the in-between period on
Yellowstone's geysers, I thought some of you might be interested in the link
below. On the China eclipse trip some of us took this summer, we had
several astronomers with us, including Trina Ray, who works at NASA's
JPL on the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn. She
gave us a presentation one night including images of the moon Enceladus, which
has a hotspot at its south pole and plumes of water vapor and ice crystals which
go hundreds of miles into space. She told us the probe would fly around 60
miles above and through the plumes in November. That has now been
successfully accomplished, and the pictures are wonderful. Much
data remains to be analyzed. Just imagine, though, a 600-mile-high
geyser! Check it out:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><A
href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2347">http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2347</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>