Re: New pictures of enceladus

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<1ieoxgn.t38ofl1snwngqN%auxotectonics_deletethis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
auxotectonics_deletethis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Florian) wrote:

Look at that:

<http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA06254.jpg>

See the faults? See the ice ridges?
Isn't it evident that this moon is growing?

Nope.

It will not take much time before people quit denying auxotectonics.

Ooh! What a cool word you've found!


About twenty years ago I lived in Denver. At the time, a friend of mine
was hot-air balloon pilot. I'd occasionally help her out in launching
and landing the balloon, and for my efforts I got some free rides. One
such ride was over frozen Chatfield Reservoir. The thing was cracking
and splitting,making some very cool space-war game sounds. I brought my
Balloon Camera with me--one I would not be terribly upset if something
bad were to happen to it--and took photos of the lake.

I was in a bit of a photography lull, so it was months before I got the
film developed and pictures printed. In the mean time, Voyager had
visited Jupiter and beamed back some astonishing photos.

Eventually I looked through the pictures I had taken. Ah, sunrise
illuminating the snowy Rocky Mountains. Ah, the Chatfeild Recreation
area balloon launch pad. Some balloons being launched. My friends. The
surface of Europa. More pictures of Europa. Some trees sticking out of
the ice. Wait a moment ... I don't recall having gone to Europa! Ah,
that was frozen Chatfield Reservoir, which looks just like the surface
of frozen Europa.

Enceladus looks like that, too, except it has more craters in some areas
and is all folded and heaved and cracked in others, somewhat like the
ice arena, where I play hockey, on a bad day.

No expansion is needed to explain this. That's just ice moving around
under thermal and tidal stress.

--
Timberwoof <me at timberwoof dot com> http://www.timberwoof.com
"When you post sewage, don't blame others for
emptying chamber pots in your direction." ?Chris L.
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