17-06-2023, 02:31 PM
Andrew Griffin
Fri, 16 June 2023 at 1:48 pm SGT
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It is the first time phosphorus has been found in an ocean beyond those on Earth, and marks a major development in our understanding of other ocean worlds.
Enceladus is one of the most likely hopes for finding nearby extraterrestrial life. While its outside is wrapped in an ice crust, underneath is a global ocean that could be a home for alien life.
Some of that ocean spews up and out of the surface of Enceladus, in the form of vast plumes. Scientists have been able to examine those plumes to better understand the ocean itself, including in the new study.
Researchers in the latest study used data from the Cassini mission – which flew around Saturn and Enceladus – to find out what the oceans are made up of.
They not only found phosphorus, but data suggested that it could be there are concentrations at least 100 times higher than in Earth’s oceans.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/major-finding-...37121.html
Fri, 16 June 2023 at 1:48 pm SGT
......
It is the first time phosphorus has been found in an ocean beyond those on Earth, and marks a major development in our understanding of other ocean worlds.
Enceladus is one of the most likely hopes for finding nearby extraterrestrial life. While its outside is wrapped in an ice crust, underneath is a global ocean that could be a home for alien life.
Some of that ocean spews up and out of the surface of Enceladus, in the form of vast plumes. Scientists have been able to examine those plumes to better understand the ocean itself, including in the new study.
Researchers in the latest study used data from the Cassini mission – which flew around Saturn and Enceladus – to find out what the oceans are made up of.
They not only found phosphorus, but data suggested that it could be there are concentrations at least 100 times higher than in Earth’s oceans.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/major-finding-...37121.html