Tiger Stripes
Just days ago (Friday the 13th), the Cassini spacecraft did a flyby from the Saturn moon Enceladus and paid distinct attention the “tiger stripes” that are apparent inside the south polar regions.
We know the tiger stripes to be giant fissures spewing jets of water vapor and organic particles hundreds of kilometers (and miles) into space.
The southern hemisphere of Enceladus is going into winter darkness, fortunately Cassini has a composite infrared instrument so it can “see” heat. It is going to be a whilst before temperature maps of the fissures are going to be generated from the data but you can bet they are working on them.
