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Enceladus is surprisingly warm, internally fractured and active ...

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It felt like the old days, when we first saw the spokes. They are one weird phenomena and it was a joy to see them again…especially since we hadn't seen them yet and were eager to know why.

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Since we hadn't ever seen the rings in this kind of detail, we were looking for phenomena we'd never seen before.

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 Detail

After what we've discovered with Cassini, if we don't get an extended mission, then there's no hope for anybody.

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It's not clear that Cassini has the means to determine if the ice crystals themselves contain microbes. It may require a device with much greater compositional precision than we have, so that may have to be left for a future mission.

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We acquired this spectacular, one-of-a-kind set of images immediately after getting into orbit for the express purpose of seeing fine details in the rings that we had not seen previously.

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We've been on the lookout for them since February, 2004. Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

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They flew through what turned out to be a plume.

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It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, ... Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.

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 Adventure

However, if we are right, we have significantly broadened the diversity of solar system environments where we might possibly have conditions suitable for living organisms.

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