Spacecraft could detect signs of life on Saturn's moon Enceladus

Plumes of water shot into space by Enceladus, the icy moon of Saturn, may contain molecular signs of alien life, and a spacecraft could collect them from orbit

Spacecraft could detect signs of life on Saturn's moon Enceladus
Space 28 September 2021

By Jonathan O’Callaghan

Enceladus

An illustration of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft diving done the plumes of Saturn’s satellite Enceladus

NASA/JPL-Caltech

We should beryllium capable to observe signs of beingness similar amino acids connected Saturn’s satellite Enceladus without destroying them successful a high-speed collision.

In 2005, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft recovered grounds that plumes of h2o ice were erupting from Enceladus, with images showing wide grounds they were coming from the moon’s southbound rod region. Later studies suggested these plumes originated from a subsurface ocean, located beneath an icy shell, which could big conditions close for …

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