Enceladus to piss all over Cassini spacecraft

In a flyby scheduled for March of 2008 the Cassini spacecraft will come within 62 miles of the southern pole of Saturn's moon, Enceladus. The move will allow a close-up inspection of streams believed to be made up of water spurting out from the moon under pressure. The streams, discovered two years ago, could spray Cassini during the pass possibly causing damage to some of its more sensitive components. The mission is believed to be the first interplanetary golden shower undertaken by a robotic spacecraft. Such showers are commonplace in high Earth orbit where shuttle and space station crew routinely evacuate human waste storage receptacles, pissing all over us.