Tag: Enceladus

  • The ocean has been formed inside the moon

    The ocean has been formed inside the moon

    Researchers have found a previously unknown ocean on Saturn’s moon Mimas. They took the Cassini satellite’s observations and combined them with simulations of Mimas’ interior and its orbit to conclude there must be an ocean 20–30 kilometres below Mimas’ surface. The team added that Cassini observations with simulations of Enceladus’ internal structure inferred from acoupled…