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Saturn's moon Mimas may be a 'stealth' ocean world

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers modeled the Herschel impact basin on Mimas, suggesting that the Saturn moon may have a thinning ice shell surrounding ...
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Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas may have an ocean scientists never believed could exist

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration shows Saturn's moon Mimas with the gas giant and Enceladus in the background. Astronomers have discovered that a ...
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What Makes Saturn’s Moon Mimas Look Like The ‘Death Star’ Is New Evidence For An Underground Ocean, Say Shocked Scientists

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn’s ...
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Saturn's Moon Mimas May Be Way More Habitable Than We First Thought

The outer solar system is awash with liquid water. A briny ocean is concealed beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s fourth largest moon, Europa — with more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. A ...
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Saturn’s tiny moon Mimas seems to have an ocean, too

The once-exclusive club of Solar System objects that host oceans is getting increasingly crowded. On Wednesday, Nature released a paper providing evidence that Saturn’s moon Mimas has a subsurface ...
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Saturn's moon Mimas may have an ocean — and a future spacecraft could find it

The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build. Research mapping the thickness of the world's icy crust not only provides a window for how old an existing ocean might be but ...
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Saturn's Moon, Mimas, Could Be an Ocean World After All

Ocean worlds are becoming a hot topic in the fields of planetary science and astrobiology, as Jupiter’s moon, Europa, and Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, could possibly host life within their watery depths.
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A Mysterious Force is Acting on Saturn’s “Death Star” Moon

The giant Herschel Crater gives Saturn’s moon Mimas an ominous look. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Yes, that is a small moon, and it’s harboring a secret. NASA observations reveal that ...
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Evidence grows for a young ocean lurking under Mimas’ surface

In the search for oases of liquid water in the solar system, Saturn’s diminutive moon Mimas would not have appeared high on many astronomers’ lists. Its icy crust has a dead, inert surface, pocked ...
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Mimas' surprise: Tiny moon of Saturn holds young ocean beneath icy shell

Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit by Cassini spacecraft data. This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ago, making Mimas a ...
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Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas may have a global ocean inside it

This is Mimas, the smallest of Saturn's major moons. Other than its giant impact crater, scientists thought Mimas was a rather boring piece of cold rock. Now, a new study says Mimas is much more ...