Low density, recent surfaces, and somewhat oblong shapes all hint that some of these moons are likely to be less than 100 million years old.
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Freeze-thaw cycle may explain Saturn moon's odd activity - space - 29 May 2009 - New Sc... - 0 views
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Pretty amazing Celestial Mechanics effects that could potentially help creation of life...
Saturn's moon Enceladus spews clues on habitability: Scientific American Blog - 0 views
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More amazing stuff from Saturn.
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Europe is less far and there is also an ocean beneath the surface (at least we think...), and it's bigger. Nasa planned a mission to Europe some years ago but it was cancelled because of budget cut because of... war in Irak !
Improved Saturn Positions Help Spacecraft Navigation, Planet Studies, Fundamental Physics - 0 views
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Scientists have used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio-telescope system and NASA's Cassini spacecraft to measure the position of Saturn and its family of moons to within about a mile -- at a range of nearly a billion miles.
Cassini's Pale Blue Dot - 2 views
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Earth, as seen from Saturn...
Saturn's rings gave birth to mini-moons - 0 views
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Researchers suspected that the moons might have originated through some sort of interactions within the A Ring, but the number of bodies involved made modeling the system too computationally challenging. Fortunately, Moore's Law caught up with Cassini, and today's issue of Nature contains a paper that describes a model that successfully reproduces the pattern of moons we now observe.
Enceladus: Nasa discovers new evidence that Saturn moon 'may contain life' - Telegraph - 2 views
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Saturn's sixth-largest moon could have the conditions necessary to sustain life.
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Isn' it a candidate for Terraforming ?
NASA Discovers Pac-Man On Death Star Saturn Moon - Mimas - 2 views
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Pac-Man actually lives on the Death Star!
Saturn at equinox - The Big Picture - Boston.com - 3 views
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BEAUTIFUL! Cassini images are always amazing...
Cassiny observations indicate birth of potential new Saturn moon - 0 views
Hints of Life Found On Saturn's Moon Titan - 1 views
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"... although non-biological chemical reactions could also be behind the observations." Come on, everyone knows life is flourishing on Europa, not Titan.
NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System - 1 views
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The Space Launch System will be NASA's first exploration-class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago. With its superior lift capability, the SLS will allow us to explore cis-lunar space, near-Earth asteroids, Mars and its moons and beyond.
Evidence of Liquid Water on Enceladus Found - Cassini data have been used to reach this... - 0 views
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cool let's go find life on enceladus! oh no we are going to Jupiter first... no more saturn before... 20...30...years !?
BBC NEWS | UK | Audio slideshow: Splendour of Saturn - 0 views
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Amazing pictures...
Report: Planets will collide in 5 billion years - 0 views
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Mercury, Mars, Venus and Earth to smash into each other, either one at a time or all at once
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by the end of that same 5 billion years the sun will have burned up its hydrogen and in a cooler state will inflate itself
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the great "gas giants" of the outer solar system - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are extremely stable in their orbits, so they could remain where they are for a much longer time
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Interesting, but obviously something is wrong. How the big giants can remain still if the inner planets and the sun vanish at the same time !