Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA Cassini Data Reveals Building Block for Life in Enceladus' Ocean
June 15, 2023
June 15, 2023
PASADENA, California, June 15 (TNSjou) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news:
Using data collected by NASA's Cassini mission, an international team of scientists has discovered phosphorus - an essential chemical element for life - locked inside salt-rich ice grains ejected into space from Enceladus.
The small moon is known to possess a subsurface ocean, and water from that ocean erupts through cracks in Enceladus' icy crust as geys . . .
Using data collected by NASA's Cassini mission, an international team of scientists has discovered phosphorus - an essential chemical element for life - locked inside salt-rich ice grains ejected into space from Enceladus.
The small moon is known to possess a subsurface ocean, and water from that ocean erupts through cracks in Enceladus' icy crust as geys . . .