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Enceladus: Water World

Posted on Monday, December 7, 2015
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Enceladus: Water World
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Uploader comment: Although Enceladus and Saturn's rings are largely made up of water ice, they show very different characteristics. The small ring particles are too tiny to retain internal heat and have no way to get warm, so they are frozen and geologically dead.


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