USATODAY.com - Puzzling hot spot found on moon of Saturn: "Puzzling hot spot found on moon of Saturn
By Ker Than, Space.com
In July, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its latest flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, revealing an unexpected hot spot on the moon's south pole.
Enceladus is coated in a layer of ice that reflects nearly all of the sunlight striking it, making it the brightest object in the solar system apart from the Sun.
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
The finding flipped everything scientists knew about Enceladus on its head, because what should have been a dead moon appeared to be geologically active and what was supposed to be the moon's coldest region turned out to be its warmes"
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