plime.com : Hot spot on Enceladus causes plumes

Enceladus, the tiny satellite of Saturn, is colder than ice, but data gathered by the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan has detected a hot spot that could mean there is life in the old moon after all. In fact, for researchers of the outer planets, Enceladus is so intellectually hot, it's smokin'. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

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19	rambler

10 months ago

The temperature at the poles is some -220 degrees Celsius (C), but the hot spot is at least 100 degrees warmer.

It may be an intellectual hotspot, but thermally, it's not. I, for one, am hoping for more warmth than that when I arrive in Europe tomorrow morning.
But it would have been cool (pardon the intentional pun) to fly above the surface of moons like Enceladus to see geology (should be "Enceladology, I guess?) and physics at work.

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