/ Enceladus Content for UC Davis en /curiosity/news/icy-enceladus-expansion-cracks-let-inner-ocean-boil-out <p>In 2006, the Cassini spacecraft recorded geyser curtains shooting forth from 鈥�<a href="https://news.agu.org/press-release/icequakes-likely-rumble-along-geyser-spitting-fractures-in-saturns-icy-moon-enceladus/">tiger stripe</a>鈥� fissures near the south pole of Saturn鈥檚 moon Enceladus 鈥� sometimes as much as 200 kilograms of water per second.</p> March 23, 2022 - 4:30pm Andy Fell /curiosity/news/icy-enceladus-expansion-cracks-let-inner-ocean-boil-out /curiosity/news/explaining-tiger-stripes-enceladus <p>Saturn鈥檚 tiny, frozen moon Enceladus is a strange place. Just 300 miles across, the moon is thought to have an outer shell of ice covering a global ocean 20 miles deep, encasing a rocky core. Slashed across Enceladus鈥� south pole are four straight, parallel fissures or 鈥渢iger stripes鈥� from which water erupts. These fissures aren鈥檛 quite like anything else in the solar system.&nbsp;</p> December 09, 2019 - 11:53am Andy Fell /curiosity/news/explaining-tiger-stripes-enceladus