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[quote]"Earth is not the only orb with oceans. In 2005 Cassini, an American spacecraft, saw plumes of water shooting into space from cracks in the icy surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons (see picture). These suggest that Enceladus, too, has an ocean—albeit one completely covered by ice. The water in it, theory suggests, would be kept liquid by tides, which create internal friction and therefore heat. On April 3rd a team led by Luciano Iess of the University of Rome confirmed that the ocean exists, and also showed that, like Earth’s, it is not all-embracing. Dr Iess describes, in a paper in Science, how his team mapped Enceladus’s gravity by tracking Cassini’s orbit. The moon’s southern hemisphere is less massive than it would be were there no ocean, but its northern hemisphere is not. So the ocean covers only the southern part of the moon."[/quote]
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so do we have more evidence of enceladus harboring life than lets say europa?
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As opposed to non-watery oceans?
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Saw this in the news yesterday. Pretty cool.
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i thought enceladus were mexican food
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alienz
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Wouldn't this just be the same as Europa? Why does it say that "Earth is not the only orb with oceans"?
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So... why is the date of the article April 5, 2014? Also is there another article on this that explains this better? I'm curious on the process of how they were able to determine this using gravity and orbits.
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Edited by Entraps: 4/4/2014 6:53:31 PMBut actually, we should send probes there immediately to explore dat ocean and find the aloenz
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What a waste of money.
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Edited by magicmagininja: 4/4/2014 1:15:52 AMi thought this was already known? edit: hurp can i -blam!-GIJN read jesus