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    Source of heat inside Enceladus?

    Isn't it not massive enough to still be undergoing radioactive decay? Or does it's crust act as an insulator keeping the heat--leftover from when it was radioactive--inside?

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    Tidal resonances. Enceladus is in 2:1 orbital resonance with Dione (two orbits of Saturn for every orbit of Dione).

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