Facebook Twitter Pinterest Plumes of water ice and vapour from the south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Fearful that the spacecraft might crash-land and contaminate one of the pristine moons, mission controllers set Cassini on a collision course with the planet itself. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Saturn’s moon Mimas and the Herschel crater – worryingly Death Star-like. In recent weeks, Cassini has beamed back information on Saturn’s enigmatic rings that could answer fundamental questions about their make-up. Would it look like a fluffy snowball or an icy shard?” Cassini found fluffy lumps of material the size of mountains in two of Saturn’s rings.

Source: The Guardian September 14, 2017 13:56 UTC