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Aperiodic reminder that Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus has a subsurface liquid water ocean that it's blasting into space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

Nick Kellett

@nickkellett.bsky.social

4 Aug

Including complex organic chemicals! One day we might find life there

Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

4 Aug

I'd be shocked if we did. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comLittle to no active faulting likely at Europa’s seafloor today - Nature CommunicationsIn this study, the authors model the current mechanical properties of the seafloor of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, and find those rocks to be too strong to allow the kind of fracturing that, on Earth, e...

Nick Kellett

@nickkellett.bsky.social

4 Aug

Tidal heating from Saturn's gravity as a heat source?

Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

Sure, as a heat source. Plenty of hot places in the Solar System. Doesn't mean squat for life, though.

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