Just a Phase: Enceladus's Mysterious Behavior May Be Transient

Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 14:07 in Astronomy & Space

Enceladus, Saturn's sixth-largest moon, is an icy bundle of contradictions . It is tiny in planetary terms--the entire moon could fit snugly inside the borders of New Mexico--and yet it hosts a level of geologic activity usually reserved for the big dogs of the solar system. [More]

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