#FirstpostAmerica: Saturn Moon Mimas Has Hidden Ocean, Say Scientists Scientists believe that Saturn’s smallest moon Mimas has an ocean under its icy shell. Space researchers claim that Mimas, also known as the "Death Star" of Saturn, has all the conditions necessary for life. Mimas becomes the newest member to join the group of celestial bodies that have subsurface oceans. --- Saturn | Moon | Mimas | Universe | "Death Star" | Firstpost America | Eric Ham | War | Geopolitics | Global Economy | F

🌌 Mimas — the tiny Saturn moon with a big secret This is Mimas, a small, cratered moon that looks like a frozen rock. In 2024, a team re-analyzed Cassini tracking data and found strong evidence that Mimas hides a global ocean beneath its icy shell — about 20–30 kilometers under the surface — and that the ocean is young, likely less than 25 million years old. 🧪 How did they figure this out? Instead of looking for geysers or fractures, researchers modeled subtle changes in Mimas’s orbit and rota