Enceladus

Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus has fresh ice in unexpected place 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 22, 2020
Enceladus may be even more interesting than we thought.

By David Aragorn
Explaining the ‘tiger stripes’ of Saturn’s moon Enceladus 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 11, 2019
Saturn’s tiny, frozen moon Enceladus is a strange place. Just 300 miles across, the moon is thought to have an outer shell of ice covering a global ocean 20 miles deep, encasing a rocky core. Slashed across Enceladus’ south pole are four straight, parallel fissures or “tiger stripes” from which water erupts. These fissures aren’t quite like anything else in the Solar System.

By David Aragorn
Sounds of Saturn: Evidence of Communication between Saturn, Its Rings and Enceladus via Plasma Waves 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 13, 2018
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft’s high-inclination Grand Finale orbits offered an unprecedented new view of Saturn and its environment. New research from the Grand Finale phase shows a powerful and dynamic interaction of plasma waves moving from the gas giant to its rings and its sixth-largest moon, Enceladus.

By David Aragorn
Scientists find evidence of complex organic molecules from Enceladus 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 29, 2018
Using mass spectrometry data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists found that large, carbon-rich organic molecules are ejected from cracks in the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

By David Aragorn
NASA just discovered the first food source for potential aliens 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 20, 2017
Searching for aliens is a tricky business. Most likely, the first alien life we discover will be hidden beneath miles of ocean on a distant world like Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid Collision May Have Tipped Saturn’s Moon Enceladus 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 15, 2017
Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn that could host life, may have tipped over long ago.

By David Aragorn
Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 20, 2017
Enceladus is ripe for life. In one final pass through the icy moon’s liquid plumes, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft found molecular hydrogen, which indicates favourable conditions for life in Enceladus’s subsurface sea.

By David Aragorn
Enceladus’ south pole is warm under the frost 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 15, 2017
Over the past decade, the international Cassini mission has revealed intense activity at the southern pole of Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, with warm fractures venting water-rich jets that hint at an underground sea. A new study, based on microwave observations of this region, shows that the moon is warmer than expected just a few metres below its icy surface. This suggests that heat is produced over a broad area in this polar region and transported under the crust, and that Enceladus’ reservoir of liquid water might be lurking only a few kilometres beneath.

By David Aragorn
Fleet of robots could hunt for life on icy moon Enceladus 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 5, 2016
Delicate space nets. Probes landing with the force of a bomb. Ice-burrowing tunnellers. These are a few of the robots poised to grab the baton from NASA’s Cassini orbiter in the search for alien life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.

By David Aragorn
Enceladus Jets: Surprises in Starlight 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 9, 2016
The gravitational pull of Saturn changes the amount of particles spraying from the south pole of Saturn’s active moon Enceladus at different points in its orbit.

By David Aragorn