Enceladus is ripe for life

• Autores: Leah Crane
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3122, 2017, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • NASA can't risk its Cassini spacecraft crashing into Enceladus, especially since it just discovered a potential food source for alien ecosystems. In its final pass through the liquid plumes of the icy moon, Cassini found molecular hydrogen, indicating favorable conditions for life in the moon's subsurface sea. The spacecraft is low on fuel. To protect Enceladus and Saturn's other potentially habitable moons from contamination, Cassini will crash into Saturn after a series of daring swoops between the planet and its rings