Can Saturn's moon Enceladus have life
WHY LIFE CAN SURVIVE ON ENCELADUS ??? , WHAT IS CASSINI , ENCELADUS JETS & CONDITIONS THAT CAN MAKE IT A LIVE PLANET
Cassini–Huygens
The Cassini–Huygens mission, commonly called Cassini, was a
collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian
Space Agency to send a probe to study the planet Saturn and its system,
including its rings and natural satellites.Cassini was lanched in 1997 and was destroyed in 2017
WHY LIFE CAN SURVIVE ON ENCELADUS ???
Cassini spacecraft watched a bright star pass behind the plume of gas
and dust that spews from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. At first, the data
from that observation had scientists scratching their heads. What they
saw didn't fit their predictions.
During its first few years after arriving at Saturn in 2004, Cassini discovered that Enceladus continuously spews a broad plume of gas and dust-sized ice grains from the region around its south pole. This plume extends hundreds of miles into space, and is several times the width of the small moon itself. Scores of narrow jets burst from the surface along great fractures known as "tiger stripes" and contribute to the plume. The activity is understood to originate from the moon's subsurface ocean of salty liquid water, which is venting into space.
During its first few years after arriving at Saturn in 2004, Cassini
discovered that Enceladus continuously spews a broad plume of gas and
dust-sized ice grains from the region around its south pole. This plume
extends hundreds of miles into space, and is several times the width of
the small moon itself. Scores of narrow jets burst from the surface
along great fractures known as "tiger stripes" and contribute to the
plume. The activity is understood to originate from the moon's
subsurface ocean of salty liquid water, which is venting into space. This proved that cassini has Liquid water inside its ice sheet
ORGANISMS THAT CAN SERVIVE ON ENCELADUS
Despite these hurdles, a team of researchers found that there is at
least one life form on Earth that likely would do just fine living under
the presumed conditions on Enceladus. It's a single-celled organism
known as Methanothermococcus okinawensis that lives in hydrothermal vents more than 3,000 feet below sea level off the coast of Japan.




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