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enceladus n.【希臘神話】恩塞拉都斯〔反對宙斯的百手巨人之一〕。

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During a rare observation last weekend , cassini ' s cameras revealed a new ring at saturn and other spectacular sights , including wispy fingers of icy material stretching out tens of thousands of kilometers from enceladus and even an image of distant planet earth 在上周少有的觀測中,卡西尼的照相機顯示出土星的一個新環和其他一些壯觀景象,包括從土衛二伸展出的數萬千米細指狀冰物質以及回望地球的一張照片。

For example , saturn ' s e ring reaches across a broad region that encompasses the satellites mimas , tethys , dione and rhea , peaking in brightness at the orbit of the smooth , icy moon enceladus 例如,土星的e環所跨過的一大片區域中,包含了土衛一、土衛三、土衛四與土衛五等衛星,亮度的最高峰就處于平滑冰冷的土衛二之軌道上。

Enceladus , a moon of saturn , stunned scientists two years ago when nasa ' s cassini orbiter discovered geyser - like jets of water vapor shooting into space from its south pole 恩克拉多斯(土衛二)是土星的一個衛星。兩年前卡西尼號人造衛星發現一股噴泉狀的水蒸氣從它的南極射向外太空,令美國宇航行局感到非常震驚。

The find suggests that the moon ' s core once reached temperatures around 1 , 070 degrees fahrenheit ( 577 degrees celsius ) ? hot enough to convert enceladus ' s internal stores of ammonia into nitrogen 這個發現還指出,衛星內核的溫度曾達到過華氏1070度左右(攝氏577度) ? ?這個溫度足夠內部貯藏的氨氣分解出氮。

Enceladus continues to exhale water ice into saturn orbit , keeping the e ring topped off with tiny particles 土衛二繼續噴發冰粒到土星軌道中,使處于外圍的e環充滿了微小的微粒。