NASA's Cassini probe has detected an unusual wobble in the rotation of Mimas, Saturn's smallest moon. Using a computer model to study Mimas's gravitational interactions with Saturn and tidal forces, geophysicist Alyssa Rhoden and colleagues have proposed that this wobble could be due to a liquid ocean moving beneath the moon'sicy surface. The researchers believe other moons should be examined to see if they too might have oceans hidden beneath their surfaces.

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Research has revealed that an oddity in the rotation of Mimas could be explained by an ocean hidden beneath its surface.

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Rhoden and colleagues were the first to confirm that several of Saturn's moons contain hidden oceans.

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Research has failed to identify signs that there is an ocean hidden beneath the surface of Mimas.

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Rhoden and colleagues created a new computer model that identifies moons with hidden oceans without needing to analyze the moons' rotation.