Comparing Ross Ice Shelf to Enceladus (IMAGE)

American Geophysical Union

Comparing Ross Ice Shelf to Enceladus

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A satellite image of the research study site on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica (top) shows two rifts in the ice from rising and falling tides. Similarly sized "tiger stripe fractures" crease the ice in Enceladus' South Polar Terrain, in an image captured by the Cassini Imaging Team. From figure 1 of the new study.

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AGU/ JGR: Planets

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