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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Is there a Ocean in Saturn's Moon??

NASA scientists have detected Sodium salt grains in ice grains of Saturn's outermost ring. The possibility has arisen that there could be an Ocean beneath the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. This discovery is part of NASA's Cassini mission.

"We believe that the salty minerals deep inside Enceladus washed out from rock at the bottom of a liquid layer," said Frank Postberg, Cassini scientist for the cosmic dust analyzer at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany.

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