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Enceladus has water. Professor Alex Filippenko
Something is going on on Enceladus – is active and we want to know. Professor Laura Danly, Griffith Observatory
There has to be a significant reservoir of liquid water beneath the surface of Enceladus. Greg Laughlin, University of California, Santa Cruz
Part of Enceladus is cratered and part is smooth with a few large cracks running over the surface. There are no large impact craters. The surface of Enceladus is a puzzle. Horizon: Earth to Miranda, BBC 1990
Cassini’s images were astounding. On the tiny icy moon of Enceladus enormous fountains of ice particles erupt hundreds of miles into space. Are We Alone? PBS 2009
Enceladus has always intrigued scientists. This tiny moon – just four hundred and eighty kilometres wide – is covered in ice. And features huge one-hundred-and-twenty-kilometre-long cracks running across the surface. Extreme Universe: Edge of Space, National Geographic 2010
Enceladus actually spits plumes of icy water into the atmosphere of Saturn. The Universe s2e5: Alien Moons, History 2008
Enceladus: Midnight 2nd November 2009 - NASA’s Cassini spacecraft orbits ... Suddenly, without warning, gargantuan geezers of water and ice shoot from cracks on its surface. The Universe s5e1: Seven Wonders of the Solar System VII, History 2010
It’s a shiny ball of ice a hundred and eighty kilometres across orbiting Saturn. In 2005 the Cassini probe observed ice volcanoes erupting from the surface of Enceladus. That meant there had to be heat under the ice. Heat that created oceans of water, and where there’s water there’s the possibility of life. How the Universe Works s1e8: Moons, Discovery 2010
Cassini revealed that geysers are blasting out liquid water. Enceladus is not a solid ball of ice. How the Universe Works s7e8: Cassini’s Final Secrets, Discovery 2020
Over a billion kilometres from the warmth of the sun, just on the outer edge of Saturn’s rings lies the icy moon Enceladus … The most reflective object in the solar system … Giant plumes of water vapour and ice were erupting from its surface … An ocean of liquid water and it was there because of Saturn. Brian Cox, The Planets IV: Life Beyond the Sun: Saturn, BBC 2019