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hi my name is Katalin Herman at NASA's

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena

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California I'm a systems engineer on the

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spacecraft operations team for the

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Cassini mission to Saturn here with the

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latest news from the ringed planet

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Cassini will be flying by Saturn's

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geysers spewing moon Enceladus twice

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this month on October 9th and on the

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31st the first flyby on October 9th will

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be the closest flyby in the entire

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mission we will bring the spacecraft

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down to just 16 miles or 25 kilometres

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from the surface the spacecraft will be

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flying through the plumes at the South

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Pole which jet icy water vapor hundreds

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of miles into space the emphasis on this

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5i is not on taking pictures of the

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surface but on trying to figure out

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what's in the plume will be taking the

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spacecraft deeper into the plume than

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ever before and analyzing the particles

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and guesses that we find scientists are

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intrigued by the possibility that liquid

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water perhaps even an ocean may exist

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beneath the surface of Enceladus and

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trace amounts of organic molecules have

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also been detected and these are the

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building blocks for life as we know it

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so this discovery raises tantalizing

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possibilities about whether the moon is

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habitable and then three weeks later on

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October 31st the cameras and other

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optical remote sensing instruments will

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be primary they'll be front and center

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to take pictures of the fractures that

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slash across the moon south polar region

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the team calls them tiger stripes

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because of their appearance and this

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flyby will be 10 times higher than the

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previous one at about 124 miles or 200

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kilometres we learn more and more about

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this intriguing place each time we fly

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by it after the August 11th encounter we

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learned that the temperature is over one

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of the tiger-striped fractures were

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lower than those measured in earlier

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flybys and results also suggest that the

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intensity of the plume was different

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when compared to earlier encounters so

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the moon is changing over time after

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these two flybys Cassini will get back

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to looking at Saturn's biggest moon

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Titan coming up quickly on November the

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3rd and as far as Enceladus goes we

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won't visit again until

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November of next year to keep up-to-date

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with the latest news from Cassini please

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visit our website

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