Friday, 17 October 2014

Wobbling of a Saturn moon hints at what lies beneath

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Using instruments aboard the Cassini spacecraft to measure the wobbles of Mimas, the closest of Saturn's regular moons, an astronomer has inferred that this small moon's icy surface cloaks either a rugby ball-shaped rocky core or a sloshing sub-surface ocean.

via Science Daily

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