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Enceladus plume is half ice

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Geysers not fed by misty water vapour after all.

As much as 50% of the plume shooting out of geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus could be ice, a researcher revealed yesterday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California.

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  1. Kieffer, S. W. et al., Icarus, (2009) doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.05.011

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Lovett, R. Enceladus plume is half ice. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.1154

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