The European Space Agency calculated the rate at which the water was gushing out at about 300 litres per second. This would be sufficient to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool in just a few hours, Esa said.
The instrument showed how much of the ejected vapour feeds a fuzzy torus of water co-located with one of Saturn's famous rings - its so-called E-ring. "But at the core of the moon, we think it's hot enough to heat up this water. And that's what's causing these plumes to come out. As the name suggests, this mission would both orbit the moon to sample the geysers like Cassini did - but with more advanced technology - and then land to sample materials on the surface.In the meantime, Nasa and Esa have probes heading to the ice-covered moons of Jupiter. These bodies also contain oceans of water at depth and could actually be better candidates in the search for extra-terrestrial life because they're much larger in size.
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