Jet activity on Enceladus linked to tidally driven strike-slip motion along tiger stripes

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Berne, Alexander, Simons, Mark, Keane, James T., Leonard, Erin J., Park, Ryan S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2024
• Subjects: South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01418-0; https://rdcu.be/dGjUE

At Saturn’s moon Enceladus, jets along four distinct fractures called ‘tiger stripes’ erupt ice crystals into a broad plume above the South Pole. The tiger stripes experience variations in tidally driven shear and normal traction as Enceladus orbits Saturn. Here, we use numerical finite-element mode...