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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Mimas’s ocean appears to be relatively young, forming in the past 25m years when powerful tidal forces exerted by Saturn deformed Mimas’s core, warming it like a massaged squash ball. The heated core then melted overlying ice, creating an ocean inside the Saturnian moon.

we think of glacier water as pure, the water on Mimas is brand new and never been touched