
Enceladus, Saturn’s 318-mile-wide moon that’s become famous for its ice-spraying southern jets, is on astronomers’ short list of places in our own solar system where extraterrestrial life could be hiding — and on March 27, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft was in just the right place to try and sniff it out.
Why does Cassini team director Carolyn Porco think Enceladus is THE place in the solar system where we are most likely to find life? Find out here.
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I’ve reblogged this at the URL below…
http://abcastronomy.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/45/
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That article was fascinating. Looking forward to seeing how this unfolds!
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Incredible!
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ICY JETS?
wtf, Enceladus…
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