Enceladus Is Built Like A Comet

Credit: NASA/JPL/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
Saturn’s bizarre moon Enceladus is a little more mysterious, after the recent Cassini flyby found it to be remarkably like a comet in its internal chemistry. As shown in this heat map, the March flyby also found that the so-called tiger stripes around the south pole are some 200 deg. F warmer than...

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