Browsing: Enceladus

Europa and Enceladus are important targets for the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life in the solar system. However, the surfaces and shallow subsurfaces of these…

Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, is an interesting place to look to our solar system in the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life, given its habitable oceans…

Using data from NASA’s Cassini mission, planetary scientists have detected several compounds critical to the habitability of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, including hydrogen cyanide, acetylene, propylene,…

Illustration of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft diving through the plume of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.NASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology The plumes of water vapor spewing from Enceladus’ surface appear…