Comments on: Where There’s Liquid Water… http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/09/where-theres-liquid-water/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David B. Benson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/09/where-theres-liquid-water/comment-page-1/#comment-2774 David B. Benson Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:20:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/09/where-theres-liquid-water/#comment-2774 Dear Carl Zimmer, No, you really don't want to buy a ticket to there. See the most recent Scientific American! What you do want to do is encourage better NASA budgets for robotic exploration, to eventually include robotic searches for life. Dear Carl Zimmer,

No, you really don’t want to buy a ticket to there. See the most recent Scientific American! What you do want to do is encourage better NASA budgets for robotic exploration, to eventually include robotic searches for life.

]]> By: Stephen Uitti http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/09/where-theres-liquid-water/comment-page-1/#comment-2773 Stephen Uitti Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:41:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/09/where-theres-liquid-water/#comment-2773 Cryovulcanism is suspected on Titan as well. Cryovulcanism is suspected on Titan as well.

]]> By: Robin Goodfellow http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/09/where-theres-liquid-water/comment-page-1/#comment-2772 Robin Goodfellow Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:46:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/09/where-theres-liquid-water/#comment-2772 Almost certainly the water is liquid due to tidal forces as Enceladus orbits Saturn in a 1:2 orbital resonance with Dione. Same goes for being under pressure. Interestingly, cryovulcanism is already known to exist on Neptune's moon Triton. And Cryovulcanism has long been suspected as the source of Enceladus' young and odd surface. This recent news is more "filling in the blanks" than "out of the blue". Take a look at <a href="http://www.nineplanets.org/enceladus.html" rel="nofollow">what was known about Enceladus previously</a> and compare to the recent discoveries, for example. Nevertheless, it is a no less remarkable discovery. Almost certainly the water is liquid due to tidal forces as Enceladus orbits Saturn in a 1:2 orbital resonance with Dione. Same goes for being under pressure. Interestingly, cryovulcanism is already known to exist on Neptune’s moon Triton. And Cryovulcanism has long been suspected as the source of Enceladus’ young and odd surface.

This recent news is more “filling in the blanks” than “out of the blue”. Take a look at what was known about Enceladus previously and compare to the recent discoveries, for example. Nevertheless, it is a no less remarkable discovery.

]]> By: Casey Martinez http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/09/where-theres-liquid-water/comment-page-1/#comment-2771 Casey Martinez Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:58:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/09/where-theres-liquid-water/#comment-2771 This raises many questions about where the water came from, why is it not frozen, and what forces could build up pressure of that extent. Could this moon have a liquid water core? ~KC This raises many questions about where the water came from, why is it not frozen, and what forces could build up pressure of that extent. Could this moon have a liquid water core?

~KC

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