<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Oblozhka-2.jpg” alt=””Brine” and “ice porridge” have been named as possible sources of material in geysers on Enceladus”/>Planetologists have long been trying to understand where the geysers on one of Saturn’s icy satellites, Enceladus, get their water from. Two hypotheses compete: either from the moon’s global subsurface ocean, or it occurs due to friction between the “tiger stripes” – four cracks noticed on the satellite’s surface. A new thermodynamic model by planetologists, based on the behavior of seawater and glaciers, has shown a new probable source of material for geysers – a zone where water exists in two states of aggregation.
