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Saturn’s moon Mimas may be a ‘stealth’ ocean world

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Saturn’s moon Mimas may be a ‘stealth’ ocean world

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The icy Saturn moon Mimas may be a “stealth” ocean world, according to new research.

Mimas, the smallest and innermost of Saturn‘s major moons, is believed to generate the right amount of heat to support a subsurface ocean of liquid water. And recent simulations of the moon’s Herschel impact basin — the most striking feature on its heavily cratered surface — along with the lack of tectonics on Mimas, support the existence of a geologically young internal ocean surrounded by a thinning ice shell, according to a statement (opens in new tab) from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas.



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