News Source: Uinta County News
| 4 months ago
Saturn's moon Enceladus may have an ocean of water, kept liquid by ammonia, say scientists. Writing in Nature , a team led by William Lewis of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas say that ammonia could keep underground oceans from...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 4 months ago
Ammonia, best known on Earth as a potent antifreeze, has been found on Enceladus, offering strong evidence that an ocean of liquid water might be lurking beneath the crust of Saturn’s icy moon. Jets of ice from cracks near the south pole of...
News Source: io9
| 4 months ago
This image from the Cassini probe shows an ice volcano erupting on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus . Scientists have suggested that these volcanoes might come from water beneath the moon's surface, and new evidence makes this theory more...