🪐 Enceladus: Tidal Heating, Ice Shell Heat Loss and Plume Escape (2D)

Side view of an Enceladus vent firing ice grains into the weak gravity of the moon. Set the tidal response, the orbital eccentricity, the gas exit speed, the grain size and the ice shell thickness, and see the tidal heating power, the heat the shell can conduct away, how high grains climb and which fraction escapes into Saturn orbit. The orbit integration is checked against energy conservation, with four in-page numerical checks.

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install