Mimas’s ocean appears to be relatively young, forming in the past 25m years when powerful tidal forces exerted by Saturn deformed Mimas’s core, warming it like a massaged squash ball. The heated core then melted overlying ice, creating an ocean inside the Saturnian moon.
we think of glacier water as pure, the water on Mimas is brand new and never been touched
On Dec. 30, 2023, Juno came within about 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the surface of the solar system's most volcanic world. It made a second ultra-close flyby of Io just this week.
spacecraft Juno out there buzzing Io at high speed
It’s impressive how much detail Juno was able to capture even on the night side. What I love about Io is how it’s instantly recognizable. Nothing even remotely resembles it in the solar system.
Cue the flat-earthers who are going to jump on this while completely ignoring all other aspects including the gravity required to make this happen, and somehow claim this is scientific proof that they were right.
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