The Moon That Resembles The Death Star Has Been Hiding Another Epic Secret

The Moon that resembles a Death Star is Saturn's Moon Mimas.


The Epic Secret is that it may be hiding a global ocean beneath its Death Star like shell.

A slight, peculiar wobble exhibited by the moon and detected by astronomers could be the result of a liquid internal ocean, according to new research.

If this is the case, Mimas will join other Solar System moons such as Europa and Enceladus in the category of 'IWOWs' (interior water ocean worlds). But if so, it's an IWOW of a kind we've never seen before, expanding our understanding of what's possible.

"Because the surface of Mimas is heavily cratered, we thought it was just a frozen block of ice," says geophysicist Alyssa Rhoden of the Southwest Research Institute.

"IWOWs, such as Enceladus and Europa, tend to be fractured and show other signs of geologic activity. Turns out, Mimas' surface was tricking us, and our new understanding has greatly expanded the definition of a potentially habitable world in our Solar System and beyond."

Here on Earth, life mostly relies on sunlight to survive, but there are a few places where organisms can thrive in complete darkness.

At the bottom of the ocean is one of them, clustered around hydrothermal vents that release heat and nutrients from Earth's interior. Here, life relies not on photosynthesis, but on chemosynthesis, harnessing chemical reactions to synthesize food.
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Follow the water and you'll find life the old saying goes ... Water water every where.

Makes you wonder if the UFO/USOs that have been reported zipping in and out of our oceans can do that trick there too...

Thinking about it, such a dead moon, boring solid rock would be the perfect hiding place if it's filled with water. I don't know about pressures but it is liquid if it's described as water.

I wonder if the earth at one time had an outer shell to it and something broke it and pieces of it fell into the water and created the continents.

Well, if scientists can dream stuff up, why can't I?

So many questions ...

like didn't the moon ring like a bell when we intentionally crashed a module into it?

how accessible is the water?

what about moonquakes?

I still believe the moon and a permanent base and/or orbiting station is the next key to space explorations

It could turn out to be an off-center core causing the wobble like they claim the moon has.

Of course, our moon has had sensor data showing water vapour clouds and the like, so maybe there is water under the surface too.

As a side thought, I read somewhere we have at least 3 times more water under the surface. So maybe...

That's no moon! It's an intergalactic watering station.

originally posted by: gortex
The Moon that resembles a Death Star is Saturn's Moon Mimas.

The Epic Secret is that it may be hiding a global ocean beneath its Death Star like shell.

A slight, peculiar wobble exhibited by the moon and detected by astronomers could be the result of a liquid internal ocean, according to new research.

If this is the case, Mimas will join other Solar System moons such as Europa and Enceladus in the category of 'IWOWs' (interior water ocean worlds). But if so, it's an IWOW of a kind we've never seen before, expanding our understanding of what's possible.

"Because the surface of Mimas is heavily cratered, we thought it was just a frozen block of ice," says geophysicist Alyssa Rhoden of the Southwest Research Institute.

"IWOWs, such as Enceladus and Europa, tend to be fractured and show other signs of geologic activity. Turns out, Mimas' surface was tricking us, and our new understanding has greatly expanded the definition of a potentially habitable world in our Solar System and beyond."

Here on Earth, life mostly relies on sunlight to survive, but there are a few places where organisms can thrive in complete darkness.

At the bottom of the ocean is one of them, clustered around hydrothermal vents that release heat and nutrients from Earth's interior. Here, life relies not on photosynthesis, but on chemosynthesis, harnessing chemical reactions to synthesize food.
www.sciencealert.com...

Follow the water and you'll find life the old saying goes ... Water water every where.

So very similar to the Iapetus moon of Saturn on the outside.

originally posted by: putnam6
I still believe the moon and a permanent base and/or orbiting station is the next key to space explorations

I've often wondered why there's so much exploration of Mars and no probes landing on some of the moons around nearby planets. For all we know, it could be that living under the ice on Europa is more hospitable than the surface of Mars.

originally posted by: gspat
It could turn out to be an off-center core causing the wobble like they claim the moon has.

Of course, our moon has had sensor data showing water vapour clouds and the like, so maybe there is water under the surface too.

As a side thought, I read somewhere we have at least 3 times more water under the surface. So maybe...

I know the moon's core is smaller but is it completely cooled?

moon.nasa.gov...

a reply to: LogicalGraphitti

For all we know, it could be that living under the ice on Europa is more hospitable than the surface of Mars.

"All these worlds are yours , except Europa . Attempt no landing there"
2010 : Odyssey 2

Just to keep it weird, the guy, Dr Bergrun, who told us that ginormous ships are making the rings of Saturn, the same planet many esotericists insist is an evil prison for the human soul and has a giant hexagram on the North pole, was not a completely uninformed knob-head.

The dudes doing the heavy lifting at Saturn gotta get their drink on somewhere.

That is all.

Not an astrophysicist but isn't Saturn too far from Sol for anything Unfrozen?

originally posted by: TDawg61
Not an astrophysicist but isn't Saturn too far from Sol for anything Unfrozen?

It would have to be like some of the moons of Jupiter. The water is liquid because of the crush and squeeze of tidal forces on the planet creating heat.

originally posted by: rickymouse
I wonder if the earth at one time had an outer shell to it and something broke it and pieces of it fell into the water and created the continents.

Well, if scientists can dream stuff up, why can't I?

Isn't that one of those "Christian Scientist" pre-flood theories?

a reply to: rickymouse

I wonder if the earth at one time had an outer shell to it and something broke it and pieces of it fell into the water and created the continents.

It probably was , check out the Snowball Earth hypothesis.

At least twice in Earth’s history, nearly the entire planet was encased in a sheet of snow and ice. These dramatic “Snowball Earth” events occurred in quick succession, somewhere around 700 million years ago, and evidence suggests that the consecutive global ice ages set the stage for the subsequent explosion of complex, multicellular life on Earth.
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Well, if scientists can dream stuff up, why can't I?

Dream up what you like but until you publish it for others to examine that's all it is ... a dream.

The moon is an alien space station in disguise
In 1969, scientists from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR M. Vasin and A. Shcherbakov published an article in one of the Soviet newspapers "The moon is a creation of the mind." In it, they put forward the theory that it was created artificially. And very cleverly done! It has two layers: one retains heat and imitates the surface of the planet, and the second protects against large meteorites.
Later, this theory was transformed into an even wilder one. For example, in 2013, the famous ufologist Scott Waring wrote that the Moon is a disguised alien spacecraft from which they observe the Earth.
According to him, the alien bases are located inside the planet, and fly into it from the back. Scott writes that he came to this conclusion by analyzing photographs of the crater by Giordano Bruno.
But NASA employees simply brush aside his theory and reduce everything to pareidolic illusions, when a person sees illusory images wherever possible.

originally posted by: ketsuko

originally posted by: TDawg61
Not an astrophysicist but isn't Saturn too far from Sol for anything Unfrozen?

It would have to be like some of the moons of Jupiter. The water is liquid because of the crush and squeeze of tidal forces on the planet creating heat.

Thank you!60 y/o and still learning

Well, hopefully a private firm decides to poke it.

Lord knows Big Government takes entirely too long for such a mission to be concieved.

What I find more intriguing about Iapetus, is that it’s littered with hexagonal craters, both big and small.