Is There Life on These Moons?
Nov 01, 2019
3 minutes
by Meg Thacher
Enchanting Enceladus
Enceladus is a small, icy moon. It’s covered in long blue cracks, nicknamed “tiger stripes.” Unlike many of Saturn’s moons, it’s quite smooth, with few craters. In 2005, scientists got a clue why.
As it sped by, the Cassini spacecraft saw huge plumes of icy mist erupting out of the cracks at the moon’s south pole. The mist comes from an ocean of salty water hiding under
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