Mimas touch
Look: Saturn's "Death Star" moon might have an ocean beneath its surface
It could redefine what it means to be an ocean world.
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Meet Mimas, the smallest of Saturn’s eight major moons.
Its dominant crater makes it look a bit like the infamous Death Star from Star Wars.
Originally, researchers thought Mimas was frozen to the core.
But a new report in the journal Icarus reveals that this moon’s external layer might just be a cover for an inner ocean.
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