Enceladus's Ocean — A Perfect Heat Pump ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Subsurface ocean salinity and dissipation rate inferred from Enceladus ice shell morphology"
The subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon turns out to be a perfect heat pump: it warms the poles while using a tiny amount of energy.
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The ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus works like a giant heat pump: it transfers heat to the poles, spending a thousand times less energy than it moves. Thanks to this, the ice there is thinner, and inside, there might be life.
🎯 Enceladus's geysers shoot water into space, and the Cassini probe found salt, organics, and hydrogen in it — potential food for microbes.
🎬 A frozen moon with an ocean inside brings to mind Europa from Clarke's '2010: Odyssey Two', but with its own geysers.