This Week At NASA: Water on Enceladus, DNS Celebrates 50 and More

Thanks to NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and the Deep Space Network, we have evidence that a large underground ocean of water exists on Saturn’s moon Enceladus — a theory formulated in 2005.
Radio frequency and gravity measurements of Cassini flying by the moon indicate a large ocean about 6 miles deep, below an ice shell about 19 to 25 miles thick. This finding validates the inclusion of Enceladus to the list of possible places in our solar system to contain microbial life. Also, LADEE update, Women in Aerospace, Lightfoot visits Langley, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board meetings, International students observing climate and New partner at Kennedy!