Saturn Moon Covered by ‘Global Ocean’ of Water

A “global” ocean of water, thought to be a key ingredient for life, sloshes around under the icy crust of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, according to NASA.   Scientists have long believed there might be water on Saturn’s sixth largest moon, but that it was likely in the form of a “lens-shaped body of water, or sea, underlying the moon's south polar region.”   Evidence of this has been spotted by the Cassini spacecraft in the form of geyser-like sprays of water vapor coming from...

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