{"id":798564,"date":"2025-10-01T21:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=798564"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:14:36","slug":"enceladus-orbiting-within-saturns-e-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=798564","title":{"rendered":"Enceladus orbiting within Saturn&#8217;s E ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>Saturn&#8217;s E ring is a huge, fuzzy, donut-shaped circle of particles around Saturn, that puzzled scientists for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Cassini-Huygens mission, scientists realised that the ring is actually created by particles left behind in the wake of Saturn&#8217;s icy moon Enceladus.<\/p>\n<p>This view, taken by Cassini on 15 September 2006, at a distance of about 2 million km from Enceladus, shows a plume emanating from the moon&#8217;s south polar region. This plume is created as water from Enceladus&#8217;s underground ocean spews out of cracks in its icy surface.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2025\/10\/Enceladus_orbiting_within_Saturn_s_E_ring?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturn&#8217;s E ring is a huge, fuzzy, donut-shaped circle of particles around Saturn, that puzzled scientists for a long time. Thanks to the Cassini-Huygens mission, scientists realised that the ring&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":798565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/798565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}