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Published online 9 March 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060306-14
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Enceladus gets active
Cassini probe finds giant geyser on icy moon.
Saturn's small moon Enceladus was once thought to be too small, at just 500 kilometres across, to be geologically active. But during three flybys in 2005, NASA's Cassini probe found a series of clues that tell a very different story.
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