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

By Jonathan O’Callaghan

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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