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Ocean On Saturn's Moon Enceladus May Have Potential Energy Source to Support Life
Thursday, May 7, 2015 14:58
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Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is looking better and better as a potential abode for alien life.
Chemical reactions that free up energy that could potentially support a biosphere have occurred — and perhaps still are occurring — deep within Enceladus' salty subsurface ocean, a new study suggests.
This determination comes less than two months after a different research team announced that active hydrothermal vents likely exist on Enceladus' seafloor, suggesting that conditions there could be similar to those that gave rise to some of the first lifeforms on Earth.
Astrobiologists regard the 314-mile-wide (505 kilometers) Enceladus as one of the solar system's best bets to host life beyond Earth …. https://www.youtube.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/05/ocean-on-saturns-moon-enceladus-may.html
