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Pictured: The stunning icy landscape of Saturn's moon as spacecraft passes just 16 miles from surfac
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c5edf5bc-cea5-486c-bf76-be8ab9284e16/6748DF56-E52B-4743-B48F-E6F51533B7CD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/C50A0AE2-1676-4829-A623-429D44C437D9" alt="cassini" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html"><P>These are the stunning images captured by the Cassini spacecraft as it headed towards Saturn's moon Enceladus before it made a daring dive just miles from the surface.<BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html"><P>Travelling at 40,000MPH and just 82,000ft over the moon, the 'white-knuckle' flyby was the closest yet past any of Saturn's moons.<BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/98A39E22-01B1-4EE6-B5F8-80BD92D5E681" alt="Enceladus" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html"><P>Scientists are intrigued by the possibility that liquid water, perhaps even an ocean, exists beneath the surface of Enceladus. <BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html"><P>To test their theory they sampled the composition of its water vapour geysers, which blast material 300 miles into space.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html"><P>The team from Nasa will report detailed results from the flyby in November and early December.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/DCE29783-ADE5-4125-81A3-CA6156CCA298" alt="Cassini-Huygens" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html"><P class="imageCaption">The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft from NASA. Click enlarge for more detail</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/A47763D4-585D-49A6-861A-16338DF1EA5D" alt="Enceladus" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html"><P class="imageCaption">This picture, taken in 2006, shows the southern hemisphere of Enceladus. Many of the ancient craters remain pristine.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077272/Pictured-The-stunning-icy-landscape-Saturns-moon-spacecraft-passes-just-16-miles-surface.html"><P>Scientists plan a further flyby of Enceladus at the end of the month, this time passing 122 miles from the surface.<BR /></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6748DF56-E52B-4743-B48F-E6F51533B7CD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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