Thursday, May 28, 2009

Crunchy on the outside, but...

liquid on the inside: Evidence Mounts for Liquid Interior of a Saturn Moon. Background:
"Researchers have speculated about the possibility of liquid water within Enceladus since 2005, when the Cassini spacecraft discovered a geyser of ice particles and vapor emanating from cracks in the moon’s south pole. The possibility of liquid water inside the moon, along with a variety of organic compounds found in the plume, suggest Enceladus may now or in the recent past have had the right stuff to support life."
The technical abstract has more authors than words (almost.)

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