"Hot spot" found on one of Saturn's moons

Reuters - Science ^ | 2005-08-30 | Gideon Long

[martin_fierro]

A L L   T H E S E   W O R L D S
A R E   Y O U R S   E X C E P T
E U R O P A   E N C E L A D U S
A T T E M P T   N O   L A N D I N G S  T H E R E
U S E   T H E M   T O G E T H E R
U S E   T H E M   I N   P E A C E

[upier]

Yeh, But it's not habitable until it gets a Starbucks or two.

[colorado tanker]

Is there a big black metallic slab embedded on the surface?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

On Enceladus

Credit:	John Whatmough
Image Number:	026
Created:	1997
Available Resolution:	1024x768

On the frozen Saturnian moon Enceladus a water-ice geyser erupts into the sky. Some theories suggest that such geysers feed Saturn's faint E ring.

This image is Copyright © by John Whatmough, all rights reserved.

[martin_fierro]

The hot spot is unusual because it occurs at the pole, scientists said...
This suggests that the heat at Enceladus' southern pole is generated from within

That's pretty much what happens to me when I eat an enceladus. Er, an enchilada.

[from occupied ga]

temperature hit 91 degrees Kelvin

Positively torrid

[fish hawk]

They think it's a moon but it's the Deathstar.

[Red Badger]

I can't land on Enchiladas?...........What about TacoBelladus?.....

[SolidRedState]

Alien vs. Predator

[JIM O]

When I read the headline I thought this would be an article about Bill Clinton spending time on Saturn.

[dangus]

>>"All these worlds are yours...
>>Except Echiladas."

Whatever could cause a hot spot on Enchiladas?

"Believe me... you do NOT want to go in there!"

[dangus]

YOu know what happens when you try to land on the hot spot on Enchiladas, don't you?

YOu get a ring around Ura---
Nahh, I pass on that one.

[dangus]

Um... Should I be slightly disturbed that the aliens on Enceladas appear to hosting a craft fair of some sort?

[Lando Lincoln]

Hot spot? Let's get 'er fixed.

Lando

[Red Badger]

......and you'll RUN for the Border.............!......

[DWar]

"Caused, no doubt, by our failure to ratify the Kyoto Treaty."


Thanks Gumlegs for the GREAT belly laugh!! ROFLMAO!!!

[Rockitz]

Cue "Twilight Zone" theme song......

[wyattearp]

temperature hit 91 degrees Kelvin

"Positively torrid"

-295 degrees Fahrenheit. "We're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.."

[Fierce Allegiance]

Some enchiladas have been know to cause hot spots on Uranus.

[Republicanus_Tyrannus]

Weird thing is they are "ruling out" the idea of radioactivity in the crust. I can't for the life of me understand why they think that it wouldn't explain it. In Africa, there is ample evidence of prior, natural fission "reactor"-type mineral deposits where enough radioactive material had been deposited to sustain a chain reaction. Google "Oklo Gabon Africa" and you'll see. There has also been evidence that one or more of these "natural reactor" sites actually worked as a fast breeder reactor.

Here's a site that describes them: http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/factsheets/doeymp0010.shtml

I don't understand why this couldn't be a mechanism to explain the hot spot.