#enceladus

"It’s just a prayer and I’m aware it’s fading, but oh where’d my love retreat?

I stare out as the curtain tears on up high on the stage, so fare thee well

We’ll leave our peace and never meet up again. "

https://www.cfaarchive.org/works/399 https://archiveofourown.org/works/52777186 🔒

Summary:

It’s summer, the Teen Titans have just reformed after graduation day and between learning to be a team there is a moment of peace to mourn. Cassie helps Kori harvest honey for the first time since Donna passed.

"After nearly two decades in space, #Cassini_Huygens completed one of the most ambitious #planetarymissions in #history with a dramatic final plunge into #Saturn...Among Cassini's greatest discoveries were signs that #Enceladus may harbor a vast subsurface ocean and conditions that could potentially support life. The spacecraft also transformed our understanding of #Titan, revealing rivers, lakes, and weather systems unlike anything else known beyond Earth...The mission may be over, but the discoveries are only beginning."

#potentiallife?

Stark beauty on the edge of the known.

A wide view from the rugged surface of Saturn's inner moon, Mimas, shows the solar system in sharp contrast.

From left to right:

Tethys and Enceladus in partial phases.

Minor moons Janus and Epimetheus as bright points.

Colossal Saturn, its main rings catching the light.

The distant Sun, a piercing point of energy.

The shadow of the rings falling across Saturn's night side.

This is how the sky would appear if you were standing on Mimas in this realistically generated image.

More funding needs to be allocated towards the search for chemosynthetic life on the moons in our solar system.

There could be tube worms Europa or Enceladus that we don’t know about.