NASA'S Cassini Finds Probable Subsurface Ocean on Saturn Moon



Source: Jia-Rui C. Cook, NASA News RELEASE: 12-218 


 Excerpt: Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturn's moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell. …"Cassini's detection of large tides on Titan leads to the almost inescapable conclusion that there is a hidden ocean at depth," said Luciano Iess, … Cassini team member at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. "The search for water is an important goal in solar system exploration, and now we've spotted another place where it is abundant."

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1214/

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