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Craft Flies Through Saturn Moon's Plumes
Mar 14 2008, AP

The international Cassini spacecraft collected science data on mysterious geysers spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus and recorded new images of its surface during a close flyby, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Thursday.The pass Wednesday...

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An image provided by NASA of Saturn’s moon Enceladus was made by the Casini spacecraft during a fly-by on Aug. 11, 2008. This false-color mosaic combines Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) narrow-angle camera images obtained through ultraviolet, green,...

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