Mimas has an ocean under the surface too

Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan have one, as do Jupiter’s moons Ganymede, Callisto and Europa and the dwarf planet Pluto: a liquid ocean beneath their icy surfaces. Perhaps the same is true of Saturn’s moon Mimas, as a Southwest Research Institute scientist suspects. Dr. Alyssa Rhoden, a specialist in the geophysics of icy satellites, actually set out to prove that Saturn’s tiny, innermost moon is a frozen, inert satellite. Instead, she found evidence that the moon also has a liquid inner oce...