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date_created: 2023-07-21
date_modified: 2023-07-21
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# Enceladus Ice Thickness
**Overview**
Description:: The average ice thickness across the moon is thought to be about 20 to 25 km thick.

## Note
The average ice thickness across the entire moon is thought to be 20 to 25 km thick. However the ice shell becomes significantly thinner toward the poles, with a thickness of less than 5 km near the south pole and about 2 km near the north pole.


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