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THE ice plumes that bloom above Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are almost certainly rooted in a subsurface sea of liquid water.
The Cassini spacecraft flew through a plume on 9 October 2008 and measured the molecular weight of chemicals in the ice. Frank Postberg of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, and colleagues, found traces of sodium in the form of salt and sodium bicarbonate. The chemicals would have originated in the rocky core of Enceladus, so to reach a plume they must have leached from the core via liquid water. Observations from Earth in 2007 spott
says Julie Castillo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "It is easier to imagine that the salts are present in a liquid ocean below the surface," she says. "That's why this detection, if confirmed, is very important."
Originally posted by jimmyx
one thing about life...there is a big difference between a one-cell life form and a being like us or more advanced...but this is great news.
one thing about life...there is a big difference between a one-cell life form and a being like us or more advanced...but this is great news.
Originally posted by jimmyx
one thing about life...there is a big difference between a one-cell life form and a being like us or more advanced...but this is great news.
Originally posted by jimmyx
one thing about life...there is a big difference between a one-cell life form and a being like us or more advanced...but this is great news.