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Sampling Earthly Geysers For Insights Into The Icy Ocean Moons

February 23, 2026
Sampling Earthly Geysers For Insights Into The Icy Ocean Moons
By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/Pw7ehoT)

The artist's illustration on the left shows an erupting plume on Saturn's icy ocean moon Enceladus. In the image on the right, researchers are collecting samples of natural plumes on Earth. These plumes are a reasonable analogue for plumes on the Solar System's icy moons. Image Credit: PSI/William Hartmann/Morgan Cable

One way of studying and understanding distant, hard-to-reach locations elsewhere in the Solar System is to find analogues of them here on Earth. For example, deserts and lava fields are often used to understand aspects of the Martian surface. In new research, scientists collected samples from natural geysers in the Utah desert to try to understand the Solar System's icy ocean moons.



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