surprising geysers on saturn moon enceladus hint at plumbing mystery - water jet flosser

A new study shows that a small water column on Titan, Saturn's Cold Moon, spews the most violent eruption when the moon is farthest from the Earth, but during this period, overall natural gas production has not increased much.
The study points to a mystery of the encelados pipeline.
The surprising observation is after using Saturn to observe the moon.
Traveling around the Cassini spacecraft.
Tuweier is considered to be the main potential site of life, because it is a global salt water under its cold surface.
The ocean can provide suitable ingredients for microorganisms.
The Cassini has seen the outbreak of tuweier many times since its arrival on 2004.
More than 90% of the observed plume contained water vapor, which the researchers said they believed was discharged from the underground ocean of encelados. [
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Previous Cassini observations showed that when Saturn was the farthest away from Saturn, the dust sprayed into space was three times as close as it was.
The new work focuses on how much gas is erupting along with the dust and pushing it out.
Cassini observed the plume of Titan because it exploded in front of the central star Epsilon Orionis on the belt of Orion and used the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer UVIS to measure the light passing through the plume
The researchers expect more gas to be discharged from the far end of the enklatos orbit to help explain the dust gushed, but they find that gas production has only increased by 20%, well below expectations.
"We first seek the most obvious explanation, but the data tells us that we need to study in depth," Candi Hansen, a Cassini UVIS scientist, said in a statement . ".
Hansen at the Arizona Institute of Planetary Sciences led the observation program for the study.
Hansen's team aimed at a private plane called Baghdad one.
"Researchers found that when Titan was the farthest from Saturn, this particular jet was four times more active than the rest of the moon's orbit.
When tuweier is the farthest from Saturn, the amount of water in Baghdad alone is 8% of the observed water column, which consists of several jets located on the cracks in the "tiger grain" or the moon's ice surface.
Elsewhere in the orbit, only 2% of the water in Baghdad No. 1.
"We believe that the amount of water vapor in the entire plume of the entire Antarctic region is strongly influenced by Saturn's tidal force.
Instead, we found the small-
The scale jet is changing, "Larry Esposito, head of the UVIS team at the University of Colorado, said in the same statement.
However, Esposito added that what is happening on the surface is still confusing the team.
He said he hopes that future scientists will be able to give some explanation for the pipeline model of encelados.
Original article about space. com.