Tag: Subsurface ocean
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Enceladus Ocean Evidence: Organic Molecules Detected
New Cassini Insights Point to a Hidden Ocean In the mid-2000s, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft revealed a surprising feature of Saturn’s moon Enceladus: a plume of gas and ice particles erupting from the south polar region. This discovery suggested that beneath Enceladus’s icy crust lay a hidden ocean. Later analyses showed that the grains carried organic…