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Global Ocean on Enceladus Artist Rendering
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Global Ocean on Enceladus Artist Rendering

NASA / JPL · 2015-09-15 · photograph (digital archive)

From the collection of NASA Image and Video Library. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

This illustration is a speculative representation of the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus with a global liquid water ocean between its rocky core and icy crust. The thickness of layers shown here is not to scale. Scientists on NASA's Cassini mission determined that the slight wobble of Enceladus as it orbits Saturn is much too large for the moon to be frozen from surface to core.

NASA Image and Video Library’s own description
Credit lineGlobal Ocean on Enceladus Artist Rendering. NASA/JPL, 2015-09-15. Public domain. ID: PIA19656.

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