Cassini data shows five chemical subtypes of salt grains from Enceladus

New analysis of nearly 1,000 ice grain measurements from Saturn’s E ring reveals that Enceladus’ salty ocean spray freezes and fragments in a far more complex way than planetary scientists previously understood. The findings, published in the journal Science Advances by Dr. Frank Postberg from Freie Universität Berlin and his colleagues, show that individual ice … Read more