Remember not too long ago when it was revealed that one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus, was ejecting ice plumes? Images revealed massive geysers spraying plumes far above its surface. Since then NASA has been studying the moon with the Cassini spacecraft as it passes in orbit. On Wednesday, October 28, 2015, Cassini will fly through ice plumes for tens of seconds and collect data via its on-board sensors.
“We’re going to be scraping over the south pole (of Enceladus) at around 19,000 mph, just 30 miles above the surface, and we’re going to go right through the plume,” said Cassini’s project manager, Earl Maize, from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
