Saturn’s moon displaying Earth like characteristics
Yet another interesting discovery has been made by the US space agency NASA. This time the agency has managed to observe something strange with the behavior of the moon that circumambulates around the planet Saturn. The moon of the planet was observed to have certain Earth like characteristics with regards to its surface.
Pictures taken from the Cassini spacecraft revealed that the surface of the moon splits open in some places and spreads apart much like the bed of the ocean does on the surface of the planet Earth. The Earth performs this natural phenomenon as a means of creating a new crust.
This information was released during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. The data captured from the Cassini spacecraft has backed up the already existing notion about the Enceladus harboring a sub surface sea.
Each new discovery seems to be strengthening the evidence that claims that water is present on the surface of Enceladus. Carolyn Porco is one of the senior scientists who also leads the Cassini imaging group was very excited over the new discovery that has revealed even more sound evidence regarding the presence of water on the moon.
The cracking of the ocean bed is a recently discovered phenomenon that has greatly advanced the theory of plate tectonics. The team leader of the Cassini group claims that Enceladus displayed a similar kind of behavior.
The moon of Saturn is snow white in color and has a rigged surface full of cracks. It has been dubbed as having a tiger striped surface. The experiments conducted by Dr Paul Helfenstein of the Cornell University where he managed to put together the cracks on the computer screen like the pieces of a puzzle clearly suggest that water is present under the cracked surface of the moon. This resemblance between the surface of the moon and that of the ocean bed is a remarkable discovery in the world of science.
The only difference between the way that the two surfaces crack up is that the ocean bed on planet Earth cracks up in a symmetrical fashion whereas the surface of Enceladus cracks up in an asymmetrical manner pushing only in one direction.
