Saturn moon’s geysers draw water from subsurface sea

Study suggests space probes can directly sample an extraterrestrial ocean

SEA SPRAY  Water from a subsurface sea on Enceladus blasts through cracks in the moon’s icy shell, in a picture taken by the Cassini spacecraft. 

JPL-Caltech/NASA, SSI

The seas of Saturn’s moon Enceladus are blasting into space.