Enceladus (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Enceladus

Caption

An artist’s rendition of Saturn’s moon Enceladus depicts hydrothermal activity on the seafloor and cracks in the moon’s icy crust that allow material from the watery interior to be ejected into space. New research shows that instruments destined for the next missions could find traces of a single cell in a single ice grain contained in a plume.

Credit

NASA/JPL-Caltech

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License

Public Domain

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