Saturn's innermost moon, which resembles the Death Star from Star Wars, may be a 'stealth' ocean world, according to new research.
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Mimas, which is the smallest and closest to Saturn of the ringed planet's 82 moons, may contain a liquid internal ocean. "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," said study author Alyssa Rhoden, a scientist Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, in a statement.The study published last week in the journal Icarus.
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