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Did ocean motion carve Enceladus's tiger stripes?
Saturn’s moon Enceladus has a thick ice shell over a subsurface ocean, and four parallel fissures—known as the “tiger stripes”—cut across its south pole.
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Saturn’s moon Enceladus has a thick ice shell over a subsurface ocean, and four parallel fissures—known as the “tiger stripes”—cut across its south pole. Each crack is about 500 m deep, 2 km wide and 130 km long, and they vent water vapor and other material from the ocean into space. The mechanism that created these striking features remains unknown.
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