Showing posts with label Saturn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saturn. Show all posts

Monday, 5 March 2012

Dione

NASA's Cassini space craft has detected a thin layer of oxygen around Saturn's icy moon, Dione. Although there's not enough oxygen for it to qualify as an atmosphere, it lends to the theory that the moons around the gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn). 

Even thought Dione cannot support due to the lack of liquid water, NASA is know looking more closely at the moons that do.