Clues of Life on Enceladus

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NASA scientists find evidence of ‘key ingredient for life’ on one of Saturn’s moons

A new study spearheaded by NASA scientists discovered that there is “evidence of a key ingredient for life” on one of Saturn’s moons — meaning that the moon likely meets the basic requirements for habitability.

The findings were published Thursday in the Nature Astronomy journal using data researchers collected from NASA’s Cassini mission. The researchers ultimately found that there is “strong confirmation” that hydrogen cyanide was present on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.


I really want to explore the possibly-life-bearing moons in the solar system.

Comments

Yes, I *know*, but it just sounds so wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

"key ingredient in life" found

me (turn of -not the last- century detective stories nerd):
"Oh cool!"

said ingredient=hydrogen cyanide

me (when you say "ingredient". . . . what exactly did you mean?): "Um."

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I recall we were discussing the possibilities of a planetary 'cultural ecosystem' at one point. It occurs to me that making such a setting a gas giant moon could allow for an amazing amount of biodiversity from several different worlds, which would in turn make for some utterly fascinating problems and problem-solving.