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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2024 1:09:51 GMT
Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQa_IVPZscY VideoFromSpace Saturn's moon Mimas may have a subsurface ocean! Paris Observatory explains Feb 7, 2024
Data from NASA's Cassini mission suggests that Saturn's moon Mimas may have a "relatively new and still evolving" subsurface ocean, according to the Observatoire de Paris.
www.space.com/saturn-death-star-moon-mimas-liquid-subsurface-ocean Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas may have an ocean scientists never believed could exist February 07, 2024
"The major finding is to discover habitability conditions on a solar system object which we would never, never expect to have liquid water. It's really astonishing."
Astronomers have discovered that a tiny moon of Saturn, named Mimas, may harbor a hidden liquid ocean beneath its thick icy shell and may thus have the conditions for habitability.
This shocking finding radically changes the definition of what an ocean moon can be, and could ultimately redefine our search for alien life on moons in the solar system. That's because, at first appearance, Mimas — nicknamed the 'Death Star' because a large crater means it resembles the Empire's space station in Star Wars — doesn't look like the kind of body scientists would expect to support an ocean. In fact, it doesn't even look capable of supporting such a vast body of liquid at all.
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Post by Admin on Feb 20, 2024 10:16:12 GMT
Fraser Cain has some additional thoughts about small Mimas having a liquid ocean. Maybe there are sub-surface liquid oceans on other objects that were thought to be too small. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-x_agktqFM&t=1143s Major Space Water Breakthrough // Moon Mission Launch // New EHT Image Feb 16, 2024 More oceans across the Solar System.
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Post by xna on Feb 20, 2024 23:46:03 GMT
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