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My understanding is that the heat is caused by the flexing of Enceladus orbiting Saturn, it's pull is so strong that slight differences in distance causes massive heat. Super cool!

Frasier Cain is a great journalist for everything space related, if you want to see more.



That is what “gravitational tides” means


> Super cool!

Quite the opposite, in fact!




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