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Saturn's moon could harbour alien life: Mimas may have a hidden ocean buried beneath almost 20 miles of ice, study finds
Mimas is a small moon with a crater so large it gives appearance of Death Star Astronomers say it could be hiding an ocean beneath its icy cratered surface One of Saturn's moons could be hiding an ...
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What Makes Saturn’s Moon Mimas Look Like The ‘Death Star’ Is New Evidence For An Underground Ocean, Say Shocked Scientists
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn’s smallest moon. Sure, its massive Herschel crater might make it look li ...
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Saturn's moon Mimas may have vast, hidden ocean
Saturn's small, crater-covered moon Mimas may have a vast ocean under its thick icy surface, according to a new paper. Why it matters: The discovery suggests the conditions under which oceans ...
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Here’s where we might finally find alien life
One of the lesser moons of Saturn, Mimas, has been largely viewed as a boring lump of ice. But a new discovery has suddenly turned this moon into hot property: its rotational wobble turns out to ...
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Mimas: Saturn's moon may have ocean beneath icy surface
Scientists think that one of Saturn's moons may be hiding an ocean under its icy surface. They believe liquid water formed on Mimas - the planet's smallest and innermost moon - somewhere between ...
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Hidden ocean beneath Saturn's moon Mimas discovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft
Recent findings from data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal the presence of a vast ocean beneath the icy surface of Saturn's moon Mimas. Mimas, known for its resemblance to the "Death ...
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Saturn’s Moon Mimas
Discovered by William Herschel in 1789, Saturn’s icy moon Mimas is 246 miles in diameter and orbits just outside the visible rings. It has an enormous impact crater, discovered in 1980 and named in ...
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Vast ocean may be under Mimas’ ice
Astronomers have found the best evidence yet of a vast, young ocean beneath the icy exterior of Saturn’s Death Star lookalike mini moon. The French-led team analyzed changes in Mimas’ orbit ...
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Saturn News
Feb. 7, 2024 — Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit by Cassini spacecraft data. This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ...
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Saturn's moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there?
"If life exists in Titan's ocean under the thick ice shell, any signs of life would need to be transported up Titan’s ice shell. This is more likely to occur if Titan's ice shell is warm and ...
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Whether Saturn's rings are young or old, its moons may be as ancient as the planet itself
This allowed them to construct a chronology of impacts for Saturn's most heavily cratered regular satellites—Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, and Rhea. This established age limits of 4.1 and 4.4 ...
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Planet Saturn
Blue skies on a golden planet, and two of our solar system's greatest extremes – Saturn is a planet of contrasts and surprises. This image, one of 77 photographs that appeared in Otherworlds: Visions ...