Heat is escaping from Saturn’s moon Enceladus at its north pole, as well as the south, a reanalysis of data from the Cassini spacecraft reveals. This discovery suggests the moon is in rough energy balance, which in turn increases the chance that its subsurface ocean is a long-term feature, not a temporary aberration. If so, one of the major obstacles …
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