{"id":28582,"date":"2010-08-17T19:51:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T19:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/tiger-stripes\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:51:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T19:51:52","slug":"tiger-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/tiger-stripes.php","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/tomsastroblog.com\/images\/cassini081710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8e224_cassini081710A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Tiger stripe on Enceladus.  Linked image is explained in post. Credit: NASA\/JPL\/Space Science Institute<\/p><\/div><p><\/p><p>Just days ago (Friday the 13th), the Cassini spacecraft did a flyby of the Saturn moon Enceladus and paid particular attention the &ldquo;tiger stripes&rdquo; that are apparent in the south polar regions.<\/p><p>We know the tiger stripes to be giant fissures spewing jets of water vapor and organic particles hundreds of kilometers (and miles) into space.<\/p><p>The southern hemisphere of Enceladus is going into winter darkness, fortunately Cassini has a composite infrared instrument so it can &ldquo;see&rdquo; heat.&nbsp; It will be a while before temperature maps of the fissures will be generated from the data but you can bet they are working on them.<\/p><p>The image above was taken from 10,391 km (6,457 miles) and if you click it you can see a fissure relatively close up, only 2,673 km (1,661 miles).&nbsp; I just love that picture, it looks COLD!&nbsp; Both of the images are &ldquo;raw&rdquo; meaning they&rsquo;ve had no processing.&nbsp; <a title=\"Link goes to the JPL\/Cassini link\" href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/images\/raw\/casJPGFullS62\/N00161059.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a larger image<\/a> at the Cassini page.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger stripe on Enceladus. Linked image is explained in post. Credit: NASA\/JPL\/Space Science InstituteJust days ago (Friday the 13th), the Cassini spacecraft did a flyby of the Saturn moon Enceladus and paid particular attention the &ldquo;tiger stripes&rdquo; that are apparent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/tiger-stripes.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}