Inside Enceladus
EU–(ENEWSPF)–3 April 2014. Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has an underground sea of liquid water, according to the international Cassini spacecraft.
Understanding the interior structure of 500 km-diameter Enceladus has been a top priority of the Cassini mission since plumes of ice and water vapour were discovered jetting from ‘tiger stripe’ fractures at the moon’s south pole in 2005.
Subsequent observations of the jets showed them to be relatively warm compared with other regions…
