Ice moon looking a bit like a poorly iced cake

in #science5 years ago

Enceladus, smooth yet wrinkled, with only a few craters in the northern hemisphere.

Even the craters have that "iced cake" look about them. Some hypotheses around ice moons suggest that they had a collision with a large, or a number of very icy comets to provide them with all the icy material that now coats their surface.

PIA17202 - Approaching Enceladus.jpg
By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - PIA17202 from the NASA/JPL Photojournal, Public Domain, Link

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Interesting, do you know if it’s just a small layer of ice on top of land or do we not know?

Just a layer, like a frozen ocean

It's beautiful.

Cg

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