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“Snowing Microbes” On Saturn’s Moon?
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 5:47
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Cassini image of Enceladus from Dec. 2010 showing the moon's icy jets and the hazy E-ring (NASA/JPL/SSI)
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 NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is in just the right place to try and sniff it out.
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Post tags: Cassini, Enceladus, extraterrestrial, flyby, geysers, life, Moon, Porco, Saturn
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