Enceladus

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Enceladus is an icy moon of Saturn known for its spectacular geysers that eject water vapor and ice, suggesting a subsurface ocean that may harbor conditions suitable for life.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Enceladus canonical 6
Enceladus (giant in Greek mythology) 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf icy moon
moon of Saturn
natural satellite
albedo ~0.99
astrobiologicalInterest possible conditions suitable for life
atmosphericComponent carbon dioxide
methane
molecular hydrogen
water vapor
composition silicate rock (core)
water ice
consideredPotentiallyHabitable true
contributesTo E ring of Saturn
diameter 504.2 km
discoveredBy William Herschel
discoveryDate 1789-08-28
emits ice grains
organic compounds
salts
water vapor plumes
escapeVelocity 0.239 km/s
exploredBy Cassini–Huygens
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
flybyCountByCassini 23
geologicalActivity cryovolcanism
tectonics
hasAtmosphereType tenuous atmosphere
hasFeature cryovolcanic geysers
south polar terrain
tiger stripe fractures
hasSubsurfaceOcean true
heatSource tidal heating
mass 1.08×10^20 kg
meanDensity 1.61 g/cm³
meanRadius 252.1 km
memberOf Saturnian system
namedAfter Enceladus self-linksurface differs
surface form: Enceladus (giant in Greek mythology)
oceanLocation global subsurface ocean beneath ice shell
orbitalEccentricity 0.0047
orbitalInclination 0.009° to Saturn’s equator
orbitalPeriod 1.370218 day
orbits Saturn
rotationPeriod 1.370218 day
rotationState synchronous rotation
semiMajorAxis 237,948 km
surfaceFeatureNameTheme characters and places from The Arabian Nights
surfaceGravity 0.113 m/s²
surfaceTemperature ~33 K (night)
~75 K (equatorial day)

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Enceladus
Description of subject: Enceladus is an icy moon of Saturn known for its spectacular geysers that eject water vapor and ice, suggesting a subsurface ocean that may harbor conditions suitable for life.

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Saturn hasMajorMoon Enceladus
Cassini–Huygens target Enceladus
Cassini–Huygens studiedMoon Enceladus
Giants notableGiant Enceladus
subject surface form: Giants (Greek mythology)
Dione hasTidalInteractionWith Enceladus
William Herschel discovered Enceladus
Enceladus namedAfter Enceladus self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Enceladus (giant in Greek mythology)