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Evidence of liquid water on Enceladus began to accumulate in 2005, when scientists observed plumes containing water vapor spewing from its south polar surface, [6] [94] with jets moving 250 kg of water vapor every second [94] at up to 2,189 km/h (1,360 mph) into space. [95]
The spacecraft performed a close flyby of Enceladus in 2008 during which its instruments analysed the plumes. Water in the plumes has been found to contain a range of volatile molecules such as ...
Enceladus' south pole, captured by NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, 2015. The Enceladus Orbilander is a proposed NASA Flagship mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus.The Enceladus Orbilander would spend a year and a half orbiting Enceladus and sampling its water plumes, which stretch into space, before landing on the surface for a two-year mission to study materials for evidence of life. [1]
Diagram of Enceladus's south polar plumes, an example of explosive cryovolcanism, and Enceladus's internal ocean Explosive cryovolcanism, or cryoclastic eruptions , is expected to be driven by the exsolvation of dissolved volatile gasses as pressure drops whilst cryomagma ascends, much like the mechanisms of explosive volcanism on terrestrial ...
The Cassini mission, run by Nasa and other space agencies, already found cracks on the south pole of Enceladus, a moon around Saturn. Plumes containing gas and ice grains spew out of those cracks ...
Spacecraft could fly through large plumes spewing out of distant world – and catch evidence of alien biology We could find signs of life on another world on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, scientists say
However, their correlation with internal heat and a large, water vapor plume suggests that tiger stripes might be the result of fissures in Enceladus' lithosphere. The stripes are spaced approximately 35 kilometers apart. The ends of each tiger stripe differ in appearance between the anti-Saturnian and sub-Saturnian hemisphere.
Enceladus, which orbits around Saturn, might be the best hope for finding alien life Huge ‘plume’ seen coming out of nearby moon that could support alien life Skip to main content