ENCELADUS

ĕnsĕlˈədəs, in astronomy, one of the 18 named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn II (or S2), Enceladus is 310 mi (500 km) in diameter, orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 147,900 mi (238,020 km), and has equal orbital and rotational periods of 1.37 earth days. It was discovered in 1789 by the English astronomer Sir William Herschel. Enceladus has the highest reflectivity (almost 100%) of any body in the solar system. Its surface, believed to be dominated by fresh, clean ice, is marked by few craters, smooth plains, and extensive fissures and ridges. Observations indicate that Enceladus has had five distinct geologic periods. The fresh surface suggests relatively recent volcanism, caused perhaps by tidal forces exerted by Saturn and the moon Dione, with which Enceladus forms a satellite pair (that is, they interact gravitationally).

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books on: Enceladus  - 252 results

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Melville's Classical Allusions: A Comprehensive Index and Glossary
Book by Gail H. Coffler; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: Allusions--Indexes, Classical Literature--Appreciation--Indexes, Classicism--United States--History--19th Century, Greece--In Literature--Indexes, Melville, Herman--1819-1891--Knowledge--Greece--Indexes, Melville, Herman--1819-1891--Knowledge--Rome--Indexes, Mythology, Classical, In Literature--Indexes, Rome--In Literature--Indexes
...Sphinxes; Cheopian pyramid 344 now styled Titanic 345 sphinx-like; Enceladus; Titan; Pelion; Ossa; demoniac; Terra; Enceladus; subterraneously stood; Ossa; Enceladus; Titan 346 Etna; borne-down giant; demigod; Enceladus; Titan...
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Encyclopedia of the Solar System
Book by Lucy-Ann Mcfadden, Paul R. Weissman, Torrence V. Johnson; Academic Press, 2007
Subjects: Solar System--Encyclopedias
...next satellite outward from Saturn is Enceladus, one of three satellites in the solar...volcanic or geyser-like activity. Enceladus was known from telescopic measurements...recent past-or even currently-on Enceladus. About half of the surface observed...
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Disturbing the Universe
Book by Freeman Dyson; Basic Books, 1979
Subjects: Dyson, Freeman J, Physicists--United States--Biography, Science
...Circling around the planet Saturn is the satellite Enceladus. Enceladus has a mass equal to five percent of the earths oceans...from the Earth and quietly proceeding on its way to Enceladus. The payload contains an automaton capable of reproducing...
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Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint
Book by Douglas Robillard; Kent State University Press, 1997
Subjects: Art And Literature--United States--History--19th Century, Melville, Herman--1819-1891--Knowledge--Art, Visual Perception In Literature
...Versailles, Gerald Van Der Kemp describes the Enceladus fountain as a "huge lead sculpture...scene a genuine fullness of expression. Enceladus, the rebellious giant, was partially...accumulatively incestuous match. And thereof Enceladus was one issue. So Enceladus was both...
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Ideology and Classic American Literature
Book by Sacvan Bercovitch, Myra Jehlen; Cambridge University Press, 1987
Subjects: American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Politics In Literature
...Titans, chief among them one called Enceladus, an armless stone giant who rises out...represents Pierres own labor and desire; and Enceladus is explicity revealed as the personal...again against the invulnerable steep. " Enceladus! it is Enceladus!" -- Pierre cried...
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Saturn's Titan: a Strict Test for Life's Cosmic Ubiquity1
Journal article by Jonathan I. Lunine; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 153, 2009
Subjects: Astronomy, Earth, Environmental conditions, Moon, Planets
...magnetosphere, would be a challenge. Enceladus: In some ways potentially a miniature...by the Cassini Saturn orbiter (22). Enceladus is also the major source of Saturns E...suggesting that its source region within Enceladus contains liquid water today or did in...
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Adamastor, Gigantomachies, and the Literature of Exile in Camões' Lusíads
Journal article by John Hilton; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2009
Subjects: Camoes, Luiz Vaz de (1524?-80), Classical studies, Epic literature, Exile, Gama, Vasco da (1460?-1524), Mythology, Poetry
...hard sons of Earth,"7 the brother of Enceladus, Aegeon, Briareus, and the others...number to choose from (such as Briareus, Enceladus, Prometheus, and others). Adamastors...episode (see also the confinement of Enceladus under Mt. Aetna in Sicily in Aen. 3...
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"Population Thinking": Keats and the Romance of Public Opinion
Journal article by Mark Jones; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 38, 2007
Subjects: Hyperion (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Keats, John (English poet)--Works, Public opinion--Influence, Public opinion--Portrayals, Romanticism (Literature)--Evaluation
...there was no battle in heaven (though Enceladus will refer to one later), and (b...18) But as the fragment stands, only Enceladus refers to it unequivocally (2.309...catalog gives no hint of any Titans except Enceladus responding practically; those who are...
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Shakespeare's Projected Persons
Journal article by E. Pearlman; Style, Vol. 28, 1994
Subjects: Drama, Literary criticism, Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
...of as creations of the second order. Ajax, Prometheus, Dido, Lucrece, Pyramus, Orpheus, Aeneas, Typhon, Cerberus, Enceladus, Philomel, Venus, Saturn, Semiramis, Vulcan, and others all make cameo appearances. The adventures of Lavinia and Saturninus...
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Herman Melville, Immortality, St. Paul, and Resurrection: From Rose-Bud to Billy Budd
Journal article by Gordon V. Boudreau; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 52, 2003
Subjects: Flower symbolism--Religious aspects, Immortality, Melville, Herman--Criticism and interpretation, Melville, Herman--Religious aspects, Moby Dick (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Paul, the Apostle, Saint--Influence, Resurrection--Portrayals, Roses--Portrayals, Symbolism of flowers--Religious aspects
...Saddle Meadows, puts his head under a balancing rock in a dare of the Almighty, dreams his duplicate self as a monolithic Enceladus, and descends to a city of stone to become literally as well as figuratively immured at books end. As H. Bruce Franklin...
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magazine articles on: Enceladus  - 23 results

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The Whole Enceladus: A New Place to Search for Life in the Outer Solar System
Magazine article by Ron Cowen; Science News, Vol. 169, May 6, 2006
Subjects: Enceladus (Satellite)--Analysis, Enceladus (Satellite)--Natural history, Enceladus (Satellite)--Research
The Whole Enceladus: A New Place to Search for Life in...Make way, Titan. Saturns small moon Enceladus is becoming one of the hottest places...material on the moons surface suggest that Enceladus harbors the basic ingredients necessary...
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Gassy Geysers: Cassini Surveys Saturn's Moon
Magazine article by Rachel Ehrenberg; Science News, Vol. 173, March 29, 2008
Subjects: Enceladus (Satellite)--Discovery and exploration, Enceladus (Satellite)--Observations, Saturn probes--Usage
...raise new questions about the origin of Saturns tiny moon Enceladus and the heat driving its plume of ice and water vapor. Cassini...and water vapor blasting from the "tiger stripe" cracks in Enceladus southern hemisphere, and the detection of organic compounds...
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Science & Spirituality: An Interview with Carolyn C. Porco
Magazine article by Arnell Dowret; The Humanist, Vol. 68, January 2008
Subjects: Porco, Carolyn, Scientists
...outside Earth. You said that Saturns moon Enceladus has warmth, geologic activity (because...was oxygen in the atmosphere. But on Enceladus, we dont know that we truly have an...are shooting out of the south pole of Enceladus into the space around it might, in fact...
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Ringed Victory Scientists Are Triumphant over Extraordinary New Images from Saturn and Its Moons--rivers of Methane, Ice Volcanoes, Ferocious Storms and More
Magazine article by Michael Moyer; Popular Science, Vol. 266, June 2005
...than 110 miles tall. A March flyby of Enceladus, another icy moon, revealed a thin...CRATER-FREE CRUST When Voyager flew by Enceladus 25 years ago, the paucity of craters...might produce the gases that give petite Enceladus an atmosphere and that create Saturns...
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Bewitching Moons
Magazine article by Judith Braffman-Miller; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 139, March 2011
Subjects: Satellites (Astronomical bodies)--Discovery and exploration, Satellites (Astronomical bodies)--Natural history, Satellites (Astronomical bodies)--Social aspects, Satellites--Discovery and exploration, Satellites--Natural history, Satellites--Social aspects
...beneath its crust of icy rock. Likewise, a tiny frozen moon, Enceladus of Saturn, sprays out geysers of ammonia-laced water from its so-called "tiger stripes." Hence, Enceladus may bear water beneath its devastatingly frigid crust of ice...
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UK TRAVEL: Look to the Heavens for Glimpse of a Man-Made 'Star' Night Sky in May Gill Pilfold from Birmingham Astronomical Society on What to Watch out for over the Next Four Weeks
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 29, 2006
...so far is the evidence of water on one of Saturns moons, Enceladus. At just over 100 miles in altitude, the spacecraft flew...to be certain, the existence of water below the surface of Enceladus leads to immediate and understandable speculation about the...
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You Are Here; Extraordinary Picture Shot by NASA Spacecraft Shows Earth Dwarfed by Saturn's Rings
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 4, 2006
Subjects: Astronomy
...however, it is probably too cold for life. Another moon, Enceladus, which is about the size of Britain, was found to have a...life could exist, either on Titan or under the ice crust of Enceladus, Cassini will be deliberately crashed into Saturn. The spacecraft...
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Laps around Saturn Study Planet's Rings; Close-Up Views from Orbiter Already Solving Some Mysteries
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 30, 2006
...unmanned Cassini-Huygens craft made news recently when it revealed there may be water near the surface of the Saturnian moon Enceladus - the vessel sent back images of plumes that could be a variation on a geyser. The verdict still may be out on whether Saturn...
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Astronomy Trek to the Arena for Space Talks; European Programme Debated
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 16, 2008
Subjects: Astronomy
...into the likelihood of extraterrestrial life. Other projects being considered are missions to Saturns satellites, Titan and Enceladus, and Jupiters satellite, Europa, plus ground-based projects such as Europes extremely large telescope and the square...
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Evidence for E.T. Mounting, but Not Proven
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 9, 2010
Subjects: Astronomy--Analysis, News agencies--Analysis, The Associated Press
...probably underground where there is water, astronomers say. Other possibilities include Jupiters moon Europa and Saturns moons Enceladus and Titan. Theres also a chance that a telescope could spot a planet with an atmosphere that suggests photosynthesis is occurring...
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encyclopedia articles on: Enceladus  - 3 results

 
 
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Enceladus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ENCELADUS ensel d s, in astronomy, one of the...Also known as Saturn II (or S2), Enceladus is 310 mi (500 km) in diameter, orbits...English astronomer Sir William Herschel . Enceladus has the highest reflectivity (almost...
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Saturn , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...group comprises four satellites, Mimas , Enceladus , Tethys , and Dione ; the three Alkyonides...Pallene) have orbits between Mimas and Enceladus. The Trojan group, also found within...satellite. Certain broad regions of Enceladus are uncratered, indicating geological...
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Dione , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...it orbits Saturn at the same distance as Dione, and precedes Dione by about 60 . Dione also forms a satellite pair with Enceladus ; that is, the two moons interact gravitationally. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...


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