Friday, February 8, 2008

Saturn's Moon has Water!

In the newest issue of "Nature" magazine (out Feb. 7th), researchers from the NASA "Cassini" spacecraft mission revealed that Saturn's Moon, Enceladus, has geysers that spout out water. Whether it is just a lake under the ice, or a global ocean is unknown, but it is believed that these geysers are the source of Saturn's E-Ring, made entirely out of ice and dust. Read the whole story here.

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