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Life on Saturn's moon?

by Paul Conneally | June 25, 2009 at 12:42 am

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Extra-terrestrial life in our solar system? Well new data showing that Saturn's moon Enceladus possibly has underground lakes of water open up the real possibility of life say German researchers in an article published in Nature.

The finding of water now makes it more probable that life 'is out there' in our own solar system.

What kind of life we can but speculate but this is good news for space scientists in that it will increase public interest and that could support their claim on increasingly hard to come by research funding as the recession bites deep

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus could contain watery underground caverns, forming a potential home for alien life, say scientists.

German researchers have found salt - a signature chemical for seawater - in ice grains from vapour jets streaming out of surface cracks, providing the strongest evidence yet of a liquid water reservoir beneath the moon's frozen crust.

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Alex Bark (not verified)

at 03:07 on June 25th, 2009

Let's hope that the scientists find out more about this matter..

nagba

at 03:10 on June 25th, 2009

saturn... mm.. well... most probably some bacterial life. but even that would be interesting.

Uwe Paschen

at 03:12 on June 25th, 2009

MilleDrive (not verified)

at 06:03 on June 25th, 2009

Just coz there's frozen layers of water underground doesn't mean that the planet is inhabitable. At max, there could be some species of rare bacteria present if the water finding is true.