2023-06-02 03:21:55
The Jame Webb telescope has done it again! This wonderful telescope helps scientists who embark on a day-to-day study of our universe.
This time, he focused his gaze on the surroundings of the colossus with rings, the second largest of our gas giants in our solar system, Saturn, the sixth planet farthest from our star king, with its seven rings made of ice and rock and with its 83 recognized moons orbiting its great mass, as confirmed by studies of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA for its acronym in English).
But this time the telescope paid attention to a huge column of steam protruding from one of the planet’s moons, more specifically Enceladus, a small oceanic moon with something peculiar.
The special thing about this star is that the moon in particular has quite considerable potential to develop life. Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons with oceans discovered, with a 33-hour orbit around the giant planet, and with a size of 500 kilometers, composed mostly of water, according to data from the NASA.
Counting on a surface covered with liquid water, and likewise it is speculated that between that surface and a core composed mostly of rocks, a mass of salt water is preserved that covers the entire moon.
The amount of liquid is so enormous that volcanoes have even developed that spew water vapor, ice and naturally developed chemicals.
Another reason why experts in the field have set their sights on the moon Enceladus was its powerful capacity and speed with which water vapor comes out of it, of at least 261 liters per ejection.
Scientists have observed that these ejections of liquid jets even nourish the entire water system of Saturn and its rings, it was observed that the emissions can have a journey of up to 6000 miles or 9,650 km, even in the publications of National Geographic he exemplifies it as approximately the distance between Buenos Aires, Argentina and Los Angeles, USA, a distance that is undoubtedly unreasonable.
Gerónimo Villanueva, a worker at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, mentions that due to the moon’s fast orbit around Saturn and its sudden bursts of water vapor, it leaves behind a donut-shaped halo of water in its own orbit. which contains 30% of the water thrown into its orbit, thus letting 70% escape to sustain the Saturn system.
The moon Enceladus is undoubtedly a very particular celestial body, which holds mysteries that are still being studied by NASA experts on the subject, who have ensured that through their powerful tool, James Webb will continue to observe and discovering more relevant information about this moon and many other mysteries of the universe.
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