Eruptions arising from tidally controlled periodic openings of rifts on Enceladus

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Hurford, T. A., Helfenstein, P., Hoppa, G. V., Greenberg, R., Bills, B. G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: South Pole; Stripe; South pole
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/1233299; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05821

In 2005, plumes were detected near the south polar region of Enceladus1, a small icy satellite of Saturn. Observations of the south pole revealed large rifts in the crust, informally called 'tiger stripes', which exhibit higher temperatures than the surrounding terrain and are probably sou...