Photographs from the cassini space explorer reveal more than 30 individual jets of water ice and vapor emanating from fissures near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The surface temperature there might be as high as 200 kelvins (-73ยบ Celsius), or about 20 kelvins warmer than previously estimated. Although the temperature estimate is not yet definitive, the hotter the surface temperature, the hotter the moon’s interior. That strengthens the evidence for liquid water as the source of the jets. This up’s the chances that life could be present in at least part of the moon’s interior. Woooo!!
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