Life on Saturn’s Moon

Life on Saturn’s Moon

Researchers from Austria discovered that one of the moons of Saturn – Enceladus – may be able to house microbes like those on earth in its oceans.  The Cassini spacecraft while encircling Enceladus found powerful geysers and a saltwater ocean.  While researching the ocean they may have found that it may be habitable.  The moons geysers have been surfacing from […]

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Possible Life on Mars

Possible Life on Mars

Should we be focusing on the future and not exclusively on the past to find life on Mars?  Some microbes have been found in the Atacama Desert in Chile that have been dormant when the area is dry and come to life when it rains.  It only rains there about a quarter of an inch a year which makes the […]

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A new water world

Saturn’s ice-covered moon Enceladus could harbor a warm-water ocean beneath its frozen surface, opening up new possibilities for life beyond Earth. Enceladus has fascinated astronomers since 2005, when NASA’s Cassini probe caught geysers on the moon’s south pole spewing out plumes of salty water. Water that is thought to have originated in an ocean buried beneath the moon’s 25-mile-thick ice […]

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