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Emily Lakdawalla has the brand new flyby images of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.

Scientists say they've discovered evidence of a watery ocean with warm spots hiding beneath the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.

Scientists on NASA's Cassini mission conjecture that this is how water interacts with rock at the bottom of the ocean of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, producing hydrogen gas (H2).

In October 2008, Cassini flew very close to the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is the latest target in the perennial excitement around finding extraterrestrial life.

While Zurbuchen did say that the agency was «on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history» during that hearing, he was actually discussing the recent discovery of distant planets and organic chemicals on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, not extraterrestrial life.

During its mission at Saturn, Cassini discovered plumes of water being vented into space from the icy moon Enceladus.

For example, the spacecraft spotted geysers of water vapor and other material blasting from the south pole of the icy moon Enceladus.

This week, walk like an elephant — very far, with seeds in your guts, Cassini's mission to Saturn wraps up with news on the habitability of its icy moon Enceladus, and how our shoes manage to untie themselves with Online News Editor David Grimm.

INSPECTING the behaviour of urine vented from spaceships could help us gain insight into water jets on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, which may contain signs of life.

This graphic illustrates how Cassini scientists think water interacts with rock at the bottom of the ocean of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, producing hydrogen gas.

Similar rifts on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus shoot spectacular water geysers.

The Cassini spacecraft has found molecular hydrogen spurting in the watery plumes from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, an energy source for anything that might live there

NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest fly - by of the north pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus — and saw a world covered in craters and cracks

Ever since 2005, when NASA's Cassini orbiter found plumes of water vapor spilling out of cracks in the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, researchers have sought to learn more about the moon's mysterious interior as a possible abode for extraterrestrial life.

One of the biggest surprises of the Cassini mission was that the icy moon Enceladus is spewing its guts into Saturn's rings.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, already known for spitting plumes of water into space, just got even more interesting.

Two new studies hint at a richer picture of what's happening on Saturn's extraordinary icy moon Enceladus.

One of the mysteries this gives us clues to answering is how Saturn's magnetic bubble, known as its magnetosphere, gets rid of gas from Saturn's tiny icy moon Enceladus.

Suspicions that Saturn's icy moon Enceladus harbors an internal ocean — one that could host life — have hardened into near certainty with exquisitely precise observations from the Cassini spacecraft.

Not exact matches

The photos include close - ups of the gaseous giant, its famous rings, and its enigmatic moons — including Titan, which has its own atmosphere, and icy Enceladus, which has a subsurface ocean that could conceivably harbor microbial life.

Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, has an albedo of 1.4, the highest known albedo of any celestial body in the Solar System.

This unprocessed view of Saturn's moon Enceladus was acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a close flyby of the icy moon on Oct. 28, 2015.

This heating ought to be weak, but some unknown process seems to be amplifying it, possibly enough to melt a deep ocean of liquid water on Enceladus, or maybe only enough to form smaller pools of water within the moon's icy shell.

Under the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, a liquid ocean launches water plumes through the cracks.

A team of researchers led by Cornell's Radwan Tajeddine examined Cassini data and found evidence that the active south polar region of Enceladus — the fractured terrain seen here at bottom — may have originally been closer to the icy moon's equator.

Enceladus — a large icy, oceanic moon of Saturn — may have flipped, the possible victim of an out - of - this - world wallop.

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied jets of water ice and vapor erupting into space from fissures on Enceladus, evidence of a salty ocean beneath the saturnian moon's placid icy surface.

Around the south pole of Enceladus — a 500 - kilometer - wide runt of a moon many expected to be rather inert and uninteresting — the orbiter saw tantalizing signs of activity — plumes of water vapor venting into space from fissures in the icy surface.

Because such chemistry provides energy for microbial life on Earth, the discovery makes Enceladus the top candidate for hosting life elsewhere in the solar system — besting even Jupiter's Europa, another icy moon with an ocean.

But another of Jupiter's satellites, icy Europa, is a contender, as are Enceladus and the largest of Saturn's moons, Titan.

Certain tidally stressed moons in the outer solar system, such as Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, harbor oceans of liquid water beneath their icy crusts.

The tiny moon Enceladus, which has a liquid sea below its icy surface and spews geysers of water into space, set behind Saturn as Cassini watched:

The Cassini spacecraft plunged through watery plumes shooting out of Enceladus and got a taste of what is inside the icy moon

«An ocean lies a few kilometers beneath Saturn's moon Enceladus's icy surface.»

And last year, astronomers reported strong evidence that the Saturn moon Enceladus likely harbors a huge and salty ocean beneath its icy crust.

Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh snow, and whereas the other airless moons were heavily pocked with craters, Enceladus was mantled in places with extensive plains of smooth, uncratered terrain, a clear sign of past internally driven geologic activity.

Ice shells of icy satellites can have warm interiors — approximately 0 degrees C — but surface temperatures as low as -200 degrees C -LRB--330 F), like on Saturn's moon Enceladus, though the team's apparatus does not reach that extremely low temperature.

Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds - especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus - we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.

Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds — especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus — we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.

Nevertheless, he notes: «If the plumes are real, this shows that Enceladus isn't the only icy moon where this happens.

But the process of its formation and outward movement aids in our understanding of how Saturn's icy moons, including the cloud - wrapped Titan and ocean - holding Enceladus, may have formed in more massive rings long ago.

Saturn's much smaller moon, Enceladus, features a network of icy volcanoes spewing ammonia, formaldehyde, and other organic molecules.

We could have spotted the majestic icy plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus 25 years earlier than we did, if only we'd known to look.

WE COULD have spotted the icy plumes of Saturn's frozen moon Enceladus 25 years earlier than we did, if only we had known to look.

In 2005, NASA's Cassini probe saw signs that something within this icy moon of Saturn generates heat and fuels plumes of water that spew out of Enceladus's south pole.

Astronomers can learn how to study the plumes of subsurface ocean water spewing from icy moons like Saturn's Enceladus from an unlikely source: Space toilets.

A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.

Because the icy moon is not perfectly spherical — and because it goes slightly faster and slower during different portions of its orbit around Saturn — the giant planet subtly rocks Enceladus back and forth as it rotates.

Cassini is scheduled to make a close flyby of Enceladus on Oct. 28, in the mission's deepest - ever dive through the moon's active plume of icy material.