Tag: Habitable
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More ingredients for life discovered in ocean on Saturn moon Enceladus
New findings renew the case for a habitable Enceladus The ocean hidden beneath the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus continues to surprise scientists. A study published in Nature Astronomy reports that the subsurface sea hosts a suite of complex organic molecules — the kinds that, in the right environmental conditions, could be the building…
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Enceladus Life Potential Grows With New Organic Plumes
New organics in Enceladus’ plumes boost habitability prospects A fresh analysis of ice grains ejected from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus finds organic molecules that support the idea of a subsurface ocean capable of supporting life-friendly chemistry. The work revisits data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which performed a close, high-speed flyby of Enceladus in 2008 and…