Chapter 15, Annex S MOONS VIDEO WORKSHEET

MOONS VIDEO WORKSHEET
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Figure S-1 Figure S-1  Saturn, Enceladus and Titan
“JPL PHOTOJOURNAL”, by NASA, 2007, PIA08387: The View from Iapetus. Retrieved April 6, 2008, from http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08387
Figure S-1  Saturn, Enceladus and Titan
Figure S-2 Figure S-2  Huygen’s Descent
ESA Multimedia Gallery, 2008, Mercator Projection of Huygens’s View. Retrieved April 6, 2008, from http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&keyword=titan%20huygens&single=y&start=25&size=b
Figure S-2  Huygen’s Descent
Figure S-3 Figure S-3  Huygen’s Resting Place
“ESA Multimedia Gallery”, 2008, Titan’s Surface. Retrieved April 6, 2008, from http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&keyword=titan%20huygens&start=3
Figure S-3  Huygen’s Resting Place
Figure S-4 Figure S-4  The Fountains of Enceladus
“JPL Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn & Titan”, 2008, Jet Blue. Retrieved April 6, 2008, from http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=2779
Figure S-4  The Fountains of Enceladus

Enceladus [en-SELL-ah-dus] is one of the innermost moons of Saturn. Enceladus reflects almost 100 percent of the sunlight that strikes it. Parts of Enceladus show craters 35 km in diameter. Other areas show regions with no craters indicating major resurfacing events in the geologically recent past. There are fissures, plains, corrugated terrain and other crustal deformations. All of this indicates that the interior of the moon may be liquid today, even though it should have frozen eons ago. It is postulated that Enceladus is heated by a tidal mechanism. It is disturbed in its orbit by Saturn’s gravitational field and by the large neighbouring satellites Tethys and Dione. Enceladus reflects so much sunlight that its surface temperature is only -201 degrees C (-330 degrees F).

Figure S-5 Figure S-5  Composition of Enceladus’ Water Plumes
“Cassini: Unlocking Saturn’s Secrets”, NASA, 2008, Enceladus Plume Neutral Mass Spectrum. Retrieved April 6, 2008, from http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia10356.html
Figure S-5  Composition of Enceladus’ Water Plumes
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