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Enceladus Jets

Caption: Water vapor jets spewing from Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, are not the result of geysers from an underground ocean as envisioned by some planetary scientists but may be caused by water evaporation or ice vaporization, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.

Credit: Image courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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