Astronomers have made yet another fascinating find in the world above us (we say world because let’s be frank we have no idea what is up there or why.) According to researchers, astronomers studying a moon known as “Death Star” belonging to the planet of Saturn say they’ve discovered signs and evidence of a secret ocean. The formal term for such a discovery is classified as a “Stealth Ocean World.”
The find of course has the potential of having a profound meaning in the search for intelligent life or former or current world’s that can host life forms of any kind. These places are often called “worlds” because they are either a world of their own or inside of galaxy’s we know nothing about. It isn’t particularly unusual for an ocean world to exist, however, (“Mimas”) as it is called appears to contain a host of different qualities that make it abundantly of interest to astronomers.
The Journal of Icarus first published the fascinating find.
“If Mimas has an ocean, it represents a new class of small, ‘stealth’ ocean worlds with surfaces that do not betray the ocean’s existence,” study first author Alyssa Rhoden, a geophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, said in a statement.
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