Cassini can help here too: at the south pole of Enceladus there are ice volcanoes that spew out clouds made of gas, water steam and ice. The probe is taking samples in this cloud, which are giving ...

Another possibility the researchers describe in their paper is that shear heating — friction-generated heat from ice rubbing against itself — occurs along "tiger fractures" in Enceladus's ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, has been monitored by the Cassini Spacecraft, allowing NASA to learn more about its icy surface and oceans beneath the ice.

This plume material emanates from a potentially habitable ocean below the ice shell, so we want to understand how the geysers form to determine if Enceladus is habitable," Professor Meyer explains ...

Enceladus has large ice geysers that spew microscopic ice particles into the upper atmosphere. This sensor will be used to count the density of incident ice particles to a spacecraft orbiting the moon ...

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south pole. Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a ...