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Aliens On Moon Of Saturn!

Well, maybe:

There is a hot spot on one of Saturn's moons which should not be there and has yet to be explained, scientists said on Tuesday.

It is located at the south pole of Enceladus, a moon with a diameter of just 500 km (310 miles) which orbits Saturn at a distance of around 238,000 km.

The hot spot is unusual because it occurs at the pole, scientists said. Usually, the hottest part of any planet or moon is around the equator, as is the case with the earth.

This suggests that the heat at Enceladus' southern pole is generated from within, said scientists from the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moons.

But they acknowledged they had no idea how.

My favorite hypothesis is that they are the last remnants of an alien civilization, surviving by building themselves a Lost World. With dinosaurs! How B-movie pulp is that?

Reading: Aside from CNN and Google News? Murder of Angels, by CaitlĂ­n Kiernan.

Posted by jon on August 31, 2005 10:00 AM | Permalink