On Icy Enceladus, Expansion Cracks Let Inner Ocean Boil Out

In 2006, the Cassini spacecraft recorded geyser curtains shooting forth from “tiger stripe” fissures near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus — sometimes as much as 200 kilograms of water per second.

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