Gravity measurements by NASAs Cassini spacecraft and Deep Space Network suggest that Saturns moon Enceladus, which has jets of water vapor and ice gushing from its south pole, also harbors a large interior ocean beneath an ice shell, as this illustration depicts.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
1 posted on
11/09/2017 7:14:52 PM PST by
BenLurkin
Artist rendering showing an interior cross-section of the crust of Enceladus, which shows how hydrothermal activity may be causing the plumes of water at the moons surface.
Credits: NASA-GSFC/SVS, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute
2 posted on
11/09/2017 7:16:24 PM PST by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Enceladus can give you some nasty acid reflux.
4 posted on
11/09/2017 7:20:28 PM PST by
rfp1234
(I have already previewed this composition.)
To: BenLurkin
Erudite fools foaming at the mount. Silly nonsense with the standard evolutionary nonsense. Prove it!
5 posted on
11/09/2017 7:25:05 PM PST by
Fungi
(What the hell is a fungus?)
To: BenLurkin
6 posted on
11/09/2017 7:25:23 PM PST by
Zuse
(I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
To: BenLurkin
Theoreticians using computer models and mathematics will never solve the fundamental mysteries of our universe. They’re essentially guessing about what makes the cosmos tick.
8 posted on
11/09/2017 7:30:52 PM PST by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: BenLurkin
Enceladus has an internal ocean of molten cheese.
The crust around it is made of onions and jalapenos.
It’s only natural that it lets off a little gas at the south pole.
10 posted on
11/09/2017 7:56:07 PM PST by
TigersEye
(0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
To: BenLurkin
Did the moon first start off as rocky with no water? If so how did all that water stay when the core heating would drive it off? So heres a cold surface with hot water underneath...so hot it cracks the ice and pooches through...now how long can that last before all the waters evaporate? Where did the water come from? Did the comets only hit this moon? Does this moon have an atmosphere? Too many questions...
11 posted on
11/09/2017 9:35:15 PM PST by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find)
To: BenLurkin
So many arguments - which can be healthy - but seek to counter the basic science by which engineers had put the spacecraft there to begin with.
Of course the electron-proton interaction is electrical. Though gravity being so much weaker, takes up an ever more significant role in such massive environments.
14 posted on
11/10/2017 7:49:24 AM PST by
onedoug
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