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Saturn moon 'able to support life'

───   07:45 Sat, 15 Apr 2017

Saturn moon 'able to support life' | News Article
Nasa

San Antonio - Saturn's ice-crusted moon Enceladus may now be the single best place to go to look for life beyond Earth.


BBC reports that the assessment comes on the heels of new observations at the 500km-wide world made by the Cassini probe. It has flown through and sampled the waters from a subsurface ocean that is being jetted into space. 

Cassini’s chemistry analysis strongly suggests the Enceladean seafloor has hot fluid vents - places that on Earth are known to teem with life. However, the existence of such hydrothermal systems is not a guarantee that organisms are present on the little moon; its environment may still be sterile. 

But Cassini scientist, Hunter Waite from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, is adamant that the internal ocean of Enceladus is habitable and that they need to go back and investigate it further.


BBC



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