WASHINGTON, Apr 14:
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus may contain a form of chemical energy that life can feed on, according to a latest NASA study that provides new insights into the ‘ocean worlds’ in our solar system.
NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn and Hubble Space Telescope are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn. “This is the closest we’ve come, so far, to identifying a place with some of the ingredients needed for a habitable environment,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
Cassini scientists announced that a form of chemical energy that life can feed on appears to exist on Enceladus, and Hubble researchers reported additional evidence of plumes erupting from Jupiter’s moon Europa.
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