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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Saturn Moon Has Water Geysers and, Just Maybe, Life


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Stitched together from 21 images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, this enhanced-color picture of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows the south pole region rife with fractures that hint at mysterious turbulence below the surface. Tectonic forces may be driving the liquid-water geysers that scientists say are spraying from the icy crust.

Image courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute