A 6,000 Mile Plume Of Water Vapor Is Now Streaming From Saturn's Moon Enceladus...

We will re-run an older, Cassini-era graphic here -- but you may see the newly imaged water plumes at the NASA/JWST story, here.

Here's the latest bit, from NASA, ESA and JWST:

. . .A water vapor plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus spanning more than 6,000 miles -- nearly the distance from Los Angeles, California to Buenos Aires, Argentina -- has been detected by researchers using NASA’s [newest] Space Telescope. Not only is this the first time such a water emission has been seen over such an expansive distance, but Webb is also giving scientists a direct look, for the first time, at how this emission feeds the water supply for the entire system of Saturn and its rings.

Enceladus, an ocean world about four percent the size of Earth, just 313 miles across, is one of the most exciting scientific targets in our solar system in the search for life beyond Earth. Sandwiched between the moon’s icy outer crust and its rocky core is a global reservoir of salty water. Geyser-like volcanoes spew jets of ice particles, water vapor, and organic chemicals out of crevices in the moon’s surface informally called ‘tiger stripes. . . .’

Love the tiger stripes. . . smile. Now you know. Onward.

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