Sentences with phrase «polar water jets»
Enceladus is subject to forces that heat a global ocean of liquid water under its icy surface, resulting in its famous south polar water jets which are just visible below the moon's dark, southern limb.
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Enceladus» southern polar region is also home to occasional jets of water vapor and icy particles (with traces of carbon dioxide and monoxide, volatile gases, and hydrocarbons) that spew from vents within the moon's so - called «tiger stripe fractures,» which create a huge plume of vapor and icy particles that extends into space and affects Saturn's magnetosphere.