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Letter: Does icy moon also have a secret atmosphere?

Published 23 February 2022

From Stephan Györy, Sydney, Australia

Your article says an ocean may be hiding under the ice on Saturn’s small moon Mimas (22 January, p 18). Given the suggestion that water is sloshing around under the ice, is it possible there is a layer of gas between the ice and the liquid? If the minerals beneath were releasing gas, then perhaps it couldn’t get through the ice, making a thin atmosphere.

Issue no. 3375 published 26 February 2022

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