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Originally Posted by dmill1220  Hi Folks,
I find this Puzzling that no Oxygen has been detected?
You cannot make water without oxygen!
To my knowledge its 2 parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, so if its water that they see what happened to all of the oxygen?
even if its locked in the water their should still be some Oxygen Around that made the water in the first place, or am I way off track here?
Dennis  |
I second your question, Dennis. But with a diameter of only about 313 miles, I'd surmise that any free oxygen would have escaped long ago. Also, I'm not sure how old Enceladus is but I'm doubting that water was made there after its formation - perhaps the water came With its formation. Of course oxygen could be trapped somewhere below the surface somehow, but I wouldn't know how it got there.