Friday, 14 April 2017

There May Be Alien Life in Our Solar System, NASA Announces

There May Be Alien Life in Our Solar System, NASA Announces

This illustration shows the possible interior of the Saturn moon Enceladus.

There May Be Alien Life in Our Solar System, NASA Announces

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In a live statement, NASA has announced that there is an excellent chance for life to inhabit Enceladus, the watery moon of Saturn.

Like Europa, a moon of Jupiter, Enceladus is a "water world," covered by oceans of liquid water trapped under a layer of ice. 
NASA's Saturn probe Cassini observed a plume of water from a crack in Enceladus's ice. When Cassini sampled the plume, it found it to be 98 percent water, with the remaining 2 percent consisting of elements like liquid hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane – and traces of organics. Those traces are all signs of the presence of life as we know it. Simple Earth organisms eat methane and excrete carbon dioxide.

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