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This article points to more evidence of liquid water on Enceladus:<br /><br />http://www.saturndaily.com/reports/Case_builds_for_water_on_Saturn_moon_999.html<br /><br />The most interesting part of the article:<br /><br /><font color="yellow">Fuelling discussion about the origin of these strange "cryo-volcanoes" is the fact that icy particles of dust are also mixed in with the eruptions, but beguilingly travel far slower than the vapour.<br /><br />A team led by Juergen Schmidt of the University of Potsdam, near Berlin, say they can now answer at least this part of the mystery.<br /><br />Their theory is that water vapour and ice grains are blasted through funnels in the so-called tiger stripes -- and the grains, being heavier, rub against the rough sides of these holes.<br /><br />The friction slows the particles down, which explains why they travel at a far lower velocity in the void.<br /><br />For this to happen, though, liquid water would have to exist in equilibrium with ice and vapour beneath the moon's frigid crust, according to the model<br /></font><br /><br />All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth AND a lander near the southern pole of Enceladus.