Warm 'Tiger Stripes' on Geyser Moon Raise Hopes for Life

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Contact: Nancy Neal-Jones, +1-301-286-0039, Nancy.N.Jones@nasa.gov, or Bill Steigerwald, +1-301-286-5017, william.a.steigerwald@nasa.gov, both of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

GREENBELT, Md., March 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The most detailed temperature map to date of the "Tiger Stripe" region on the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus reveals that the area is even warmer than previous measurements indicated. Jets resembling geysers are erupting from cracks in the icy crust of this region, so named because the fissures look like the stripes of a tiger.

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