Environmental

Strongest Evidence Yet Indicates Icy Saturn Moon Hiding Saltwater Ocean

Enceladus
Water vapor jets spewing from Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus. (Image courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)

Boulder, Colorado-(ENEWSPF)- Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, subterranean saltwater ocean, says a new international study led by the University of Heidelberg and involving the University of Colorado Boulder.

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The new discovery was made during the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, a collaboration…

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