Today, NASA sends a probe diving through distant ice geysers in search of alien life
(WASHINGTON POST) on Wednesday morning, the Cassini orbiter will go plume diving.
You just can’t beat an alien ocean.
Today, at 11:22 a.m. Eastern time, NASA’s Cassini orbiter will make a close swipe at Saturn’s moon Enceladus — a moon recently proven to be completely covered in ocean beneath its icy crust. The plan is for the spacecraft to dive into icy plumes that shoot out of the moon’s frozen surface.