Cracks on Enceladus Open and Close Under Saturn's Pull
U.S. Newswire, May, 2007
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GREENBELT, Md., May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cracks in the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus open and close daily under the pull of Saturn's gravity, according to new calculations by NASA- sponsored researchers.
"Tides generated by Saturn's gravity could control the timing of eruptions from cracks in the southern hemisphere of Enceladus," said Dr. Terry Hurford of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Hurford is lead author of a paper on this research appearing in Nature May 17. This paper is one of two studies on...
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