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Quote:The ocean, sprawling over the moon's south pole, is estimated to be about eight kilometres deep, covering about as much area as Lake Superior, the BBC reports.
"It's even possible that it's global," study co-author and planetary scientist David Stevenson tells CBC'S Quirks & Quarks. "All that we can say for certain is this layer of water is thickest at the south pole."
Sheathed in white ice, Enceladus is one of the brighter shiny baubles among Saturn's 53 known moons. But its beauty is more than skin deep. While the ocean may seem entombed in ice, team leader Luciano Iess of Sapienza University of Rome, suggests it stays relatively fluid, thanks to tides -- and those tides, in turn, build friction , essentially heating the water.
Man is now one step closer to finding life outside of our planet. This is an absolutely incredible discovery.
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Man is now one step closer to finding life outside of our planet. This is an absolutely incredible discovery.
. Awesome !
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Man is now one step closer to finding life outside of our planet. This is an absolutely incredible discovery.
While man is one step closer to actually proving it exists, with such a vast universe and an immense amount of other planets and
galaxies out there, you'd have to be crazy to think that our planet is the only life form out there.
Is it actual water or is it a sea of methane and ethane like Titan? I'm not smart enough to know the name for it, but I read that the orbit with some moons around larger planets allow for vibration or something that causes heat near the moons cores or surface or something that may sustain life of sorts.
Quote:Is it actual water or is it a sea of methane and ethane like Titan? I'm not smart enough to know the name for it, but I read that the orbit with some moons around larger planets allow for vibration or something that causes heat near the moons cores or surface or something that may sustain life of sorts.
It's H2o on both this new one and Europa.
We are headed into really exciting times.
I hear they're both already infested with aggravating inconsiderate jet ski riders.
Yet we can't find a missing air liner.
Quote:While man is one step closer to actually proving it exists, with such a vast universe and an immense amount of other planets and galaxies out there, you'd have to be crazy to think that our planet is the only life form out there.
I didn't think anyone is that arrogant to think we are the only ones here.. It's just a matter of when we find other life or when they find us.
This is actually really good news to all those amongst us who have claimed to have seen these aliens from out of space.
I wonder what these aliens who have been spotted by humans tell their own population about us when they get back to their own planet??
Quote:This is actually really good news to all those amongst us who have claimed to have seen these aliens from out of space.
I wonder what these aliens who have been spotted by humans tell their own population about us when they get back to their own planet??
You believe we've been visited, huh?
Quote:You believe we've been visited, huh?
The Aliens are here now and living amongst us
Quote:The Aliens are here now and living amongst us
That explains Hollywood.
Quote:You believe we've been visited, huh?
I've heard and read about those amongst us who believe they have been visited, but I have no proof either way.
I haven't been visited myself, but I have seen a few movies.
Quote:That explains Hollywood.
It explains more then just Hollywood.
It's about time. Water was the last unchecked item on my Saturn relocation check list.
Quote:That explains Hollywood.
...and JungleCat.
Quote:...and JungleCat.
Earthlings...every NFL team must draft 5 offensive/defensive tackles.
Quote:Yet we can't find a missing air liner.
Too Much H2Oooooooo...
NH3...