Life at Enceladus :Search beyond Earth
Enceladus is one of Saturn's icy moons and is yet another powerful candidate for the search for life beyond Earth.
Enceladus has a vast liquid ocean underneath it's surface. This ocean water periodically erupts from Enceladus in the form of Geysers/Plumes.
In October 2015, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made the deepest dive ever through a plume of gas and ice spraying from the south pole of Enceladus.
The spacecraft "sniffed" the presence of Hydrogen.
Hydrogen is like a "Candy" for microbes.
They eat Hydrogen, then turn it into methane.
So since Hydrogen in present at Enceladus, there may be a huge chance for microbes to exist.
Not only this, the three primary ingredients for life has been confirmed at Enceladus.
• Liquid Water
• Source of energy
• Right chemical ingredients
So there actually might be a chance for Alien life to exist at Enceladus.
Enceladus has a vast liquid ocean underneath it's surface. This ocean water periodically erupts from Enceladus in the form of Geysers/Plumes.
In October 2015, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made the deepest dive ever through a plume of gas and ice spraying from the south pole of Enceladus.
The spacecraft "sniffed" the presence of Hydrogen.
Hydrogen is like a "Candy" for microbes.
They eat Hydrogen, then turn it into methane.
So since Hydrogen in present at Enceladus, there may be a huge chance for microbes to exist.
Not only this, the three primary ingredients for life has been confirmed at Enceladus.
• Liquid Water
• Source of energy
• Right chemical ingredients
So there actually might be a chance for Alien life to exist at Enceladus.
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