NASA's press releases are often intriguing, but rarely are they this amusing.
The Cassini spacecraft "tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion from Saturn's moon Enceladus." Hunter Waite, principal investigator for the Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, tells us that "Enceladus' brew is like carbonated water with an essence of natural gas."
At least he stopped short of calling it "charming, with an herbaceous bouquet."
The full press release is here.
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