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[HAVE YOU MET ENCELADUS?]
Enceladus is the sixth largest moon of Saturn,
named after one of the Giants of Greek Mythology.
Looking like a jar of Marshmallow Creme, this is a super cold moon. Yes, that's all ice and snow you're seeing!!!
It's COVERED in hundreds of meters of snow (I wonder what it taste like ?
)
The highest temperatures you can find here on go up −198 °C / −324.4 °F !!!
Grab a jacket!! And maybe a nice thick scarf too!
What makes this moon super interesting is that it has GIANT geyser's shooting out water/ice particles/etc.
So you can get a grasp of the size, Enceladus is only 314 miles across, much smaller than our moon.
But still, shooting geyser's of that height with that size of a moon is nothing to brush off!!!
Bro is blasting 200 kilograms/440 pounds... PER SECOND.
HES CRAZY FOR THAT.
It's more than likely to have a subsurface salty ocean (obviously from what we can tell with the geysers),
which makes it a good candidate to hold potential microbial life !!
(I wont get into the specific sciences here because then I'd be getting too wordy but you can read here under Potential Habitability)
here's enceladus comapred to saturn!!! i have megalophia so this scares the shit out of me!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!
(Picture taken by Cassini, spacecraft)
Here's another image taken by Cassini, the geyser's backlit by the sun so you can really see just how massive this is.
Their are many many many moons in our solar system, and most of them are inactive.
So it's so cool to see the moons that are "alive" geologically, so much going on!!! So much to discover!!!
I especially love this moon because it's just so pretty to look at, oh to live on a orb full of snow....
Enceladus is the sixth largest moon of Saturn,
named after one of the Giants of Greek Mythology.
Looking like a jar of Marshmallow Creme, this is a super cold moon. Yes, that's all ice and snow you're seeing!!!
It's COVERED in hundreds of meters of snow (I wonder what it taste like ?
The highest temperatures you can find here on go up −198 °C / −324.4 °F !!!
Grab a jacket!! And maybe a nice thick scarf too!
What makes this moon super interesting is that it has GIANT geyser's shooting out water/ice particles/etc.
So you can get a grasp of the size, Enceladus is only 314 miles across, much smaller than our moon.
But still, shooting geyser's of that height with that size of a moon is nothing to brush off!!!
Bro is blasting 200 kilograms/440 pounds... PER SECOND.
HES CRAZY FOR THAT.
It's more than likely to have a subsurface salty ocean (obviously from what we can tell with the geysers),
which makes it a good candidate to hold potential microbial life !!
(I wont get into the specific sciences here because then I'd be getting too wordy but you can read here under Potential Habitability)
here's enceladus comapred to saturn!!! i have megalophia so this scares the shit out of me!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!
(Picture taken by Cassini, spacecraft)
Here's another image taken by Cassini, the geyser's backlit by the sun so you can really see just how massive this is.
Their are many many many moons in our solar system, and most of them are inactive.
So it's so cool to see the moons that are "alive" geologically, so much going on!!! So much to discover!!!
I especially love this moon because it's just so pretty to look at, oh to live on a orb full of snow....
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