Ice moon close up
Saturn's moon Enceladus is an ice moon just like Jupiter's Europa.
They still have plenty of incoming dust, rock and other space material which turns their icy surface into a slushy jumble of ice, rock and dust. The ice is constantly thawing and refreezing in places, often due to volcanism underneath and so the ice moves around and undergoes tectonic like activity. Hence the highly crevassed and wrinkled state in some places.
By NASA - http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=165898, Public Domain, Link
All of space is just a boring something....something happening somewhere....rocks colliding, planets forming, stars dying....somewhere.
That is until it is documented....then it BECOMES something to us. And how grateful there are places allowing us to be part of that something with pics like this
🖕I didn’t know before, I’m glad you shared the knowledge.
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I never get tired of shots like this
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Am glad you shared the knowledge... wasn't aware
So life as we know it is a possibility on Enceladus as well. I think there is a good chance that at least some microorganismal life exists elsewhere in this solar system. Life occuring on other planets through Panspermia, at least ballistic panspermia, seems probable to me.