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Thirty Thousand Kilometers Above Enceladus

apod.nasa.gov — What does the surface of Saturn's ice-spewing moon Enceladus look like?

Who dugg this? Made popular Mar 17, 2008

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  • calisto625, on 03/17/2008, -0/+10amazing detail of the surface, interesting patterns
  • BuddingMonkey, on 03/17/2008, -0/+9i disagree
  • Annas890, on 03/17/2008, -2/+8apod = automatic front page
  • frogman54, on 03/17/2008, -1/+7People probably shouldn't do meth and then make digg comments. Although I did learn a lot about capitalsism.
  • zomgorly, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4If you click on the photo it seems to flip in the opposite direction
  • URnotheonly1, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4all these worlds are yours except europa. attempt no landings there
  • dwatten, on 03/17/2008, -1/+4dugg for being titled Saturn's ice-spewing moon
  • markymark123, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3Its most likely due to local resurfacing mechanisms...Enceladus has evidence of tectonic activity which could be one source of this. Also, quasi-volcanic activity through cryovolcanos is likely to have been a major resurfacing process...rather than magma, these volcanoes erupt with icy-water like liquids. All of these factors lead to renewing of old, cratered surfaces, leaving new crater-free regions as observed.
  • inactive, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3Strange, strange, strange... you can see a large chunk of Enceladus that has not been hit by big asteroids. Why is that? Maybe water ocean or thick ice layer was once there to absorb asteroid impacts.
  • inactive, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3i love space
  • FortyCaliber, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2No it's a moon.
    The Space station is on the other side.
  • rgbowman, on 03/17/2008, -3/+5Lovely
  • Premier, on 03/17/2008, -1/+3I caught Enceladus last year, had to call out sick the whole week
  • chesscat, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2Reminds me of a joke: What does Star Trek and toilet paper have in common? They both go around Uranus wiping out klingons.
  • chrgrose, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2Cassini has brought us some amazing pictures of Jupiters satellites.
  • joemommasfat, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2mmmmmmm enchiladas
  • chardos, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2Awesome.
  • DarkDx, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2APOD needs a RSS feed.
  • yugenro, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2the non-cratered areas were probably once-cratered, but the craters have since been covered by tectonic activity; that is, FLOWing stuff!
  • cyranthus, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1suddenly, im craving enchiladas
  • Philbert, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1It probably has been hit but the surface moved around enough to cover it up.
  • cracker42, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Dugg for the most promising source of first discovering alien life (albeit not that promising).
  • Maxmojo015, on 03/17/2008, -2/+3now that's what i call a




    FAIL!
  • markp93, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Hoth?
  • directive0, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1It looks like my new desktop is what it looks like!
  • Exekutor, on 03/17/2008, -1/+2That's no moon, is a space station.
  • inactive, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1*****!
  • inactive, on 03/18/2008, -0/+1unless somebody does better than NASA apod. Maybe that goes down to owning a telescope better than Hubble and better spacecrafts.
  • piesforyou, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Because people Digg it. That's the point.
  • Philbert, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1You actually read that whole thing?
  • Jako, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1stfu
  • piesforyou, on 03/17/2008, -1/+2Are you trying to say you have moon-sized balls?
  • markymark123, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1It already has one: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  • ktsetchfield, on 03/17/2008, -1/+2why does it "Spew ice"?
  • specialK16, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Well I tried to read all of that, but it's copypasted several times so....
  • Lunsar2, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1That's no space station...it's a moon!
  • Kenzan, on 03/17/2008, -1/+1I can totally see my house from there.
  • terath, on 03/17/2008, -0/+0There is a google home page widget for it.
  • KingGorilla, on 03/17/2008, -1/+1boop
  • Aeroslin, on 03/18/2008, -0/+0One of the promising sources of alien life. Europa is an even better choice.
  • nufoto, on 03/17/2008, -3/+3Super Shot!
  • Akraz, on 03/17/2008, -1/+1Americans know what kilometers are?
    Screenshots or it didnt happen
  • frogman54, on 03/17/2008, -1/+1I think they are just taking black and white macros of some dude's thumb.
  • FortyCaliber, on 03/17/2008, -2/+1It looks like a scrotum. That's what it looks like.
  • fxu1989, on 03/17/2008, -2/+1If you are dying to see the "Astronomy Picture of the Day", put the link as your homepage.

    Stop flooding my digg.

    /me expects to get dugg down..
  • porkdanish, on 03/17/2008, -2/+0That's no moon.
  • fgonzalez, on 03/17/2008, -5/+0ugh, why does this site hit the front page every day?
  • micro506, on 03/17/2008, -8/+1Now that's what I call a sticky situation!
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