Why do astronomers find Saturn’s moon Enceladus particularly fascinating?
Beneath its thick surface of ice, Enceladus contains an ocean that could potentially harbor a habitable environment, making it fascinating to scientists. Enceladus is Saturn’s sixth largest moon (out of 83 moons), measuring just 500 kilometers in diameter. William Herschel discovered it in 1789, and despite brief flybys during NASA’s Voyager missions, little was still …
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