Direct detection of the Enceladus water torus with Herschel
International audience Cryovolcanic activity near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus produces plumes of H2O-dominated gases and ice particles, which escape and populate a torus-shaped cloud. Using submillimeter spectroscopy with Herschel, we report the direct detection of the Enceladus w...
Published in: | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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HAL CCSD
2011
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Online Access: | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00620190 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00620190/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00620190/file/aa17377-11.pdf https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117377 |