Water Beyond Earth #2 The Saturn's Moon Enceladus
The sixth largest moon of Saturn got the spotlight to be one of the body having a liquid water beneath its surface.
The surface of the moon is made up of fresh and clean ice making it one the most reflective bodies in solar system.
However the surface temperatures are very cold about -200 degree C.
Discovered by William Herschel in 1989 the moon is believed to have a large ocean under its thick icy surface.
NASA has captured images of moon emitting water plumes of water in space.
Most of the water fall back to moon's surface becoming ice and rest of it disbursed in open space.
Below are the original images taken by NASA you can clearly see the water coming out from the poles.
NASA spacecraft Cassini also did a fly by over moon when the geysers were busy in emitting liquid water in space.
The artistic concept of the event.
Enceladus is a likely candidate to have unmanned space missions in future.
I do think that there is life there.
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