Enceladus Picture (IMAGE)
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. Those ejected particles, clues to the subsurface ocean, were analyzed by instruments on board the Cassini space mission. New analysis finds evidence of phosphates, a key building block for life as we know it.
Credit
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Usage Restrictions
No restrictions.
License
Public Domain