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in title, tags, annotations or urlFreeze-thaw cycle may explain Saturn moon's odd activity - space - 29 May 2009 - New Scientist - 0 views
Saturn's moon Enceladus spews clues on habitability: Scientific American Blog - 0 views
Cassini's Pale Blue Dot - 2 views
Saturn's rings gave birth to mini-moons - 0 views
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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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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.
Cassiny observations indicate birth of potential new Saturn moon - 0 views
Hints of Life Found On Saturn's Moon Titan - 1 views
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