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The Geysers of Enceladus May be an Illusion : Discovery News (Original Post) Panich52 May 2015 OP
Well, this sounds like rubbish. (Corrected) longship May 2015 #1

longship

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1. Well, this sounds like rubbish. (Corrected)
Fri May 8, 2015, 01:41 PM
May 2015

Especially since the F ring exists only because of these geysers. And Cassini has actually measured the content of the geysers.

Here. Let Carolyn Porco explain it:



And some more recent info:


There is no way these geysers do not exist since Cassini has actually measured their content. Plus, there's this relatively newly found ring...

On edit: well this is yet another example of a rather bad headline. The article does not claim that the Enceladus tiger stripes are not emitting stuff, but that they aren't individual geysers but may be "curtains".

Regardless, I will leave my post up so that DUers can view the incredible Carolyn Porco's TED talks on this topic.
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