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April 01, 2008
There's Something Out there. On Saturn's Moon.
An international spacecraft that dove through geysers erupting from the surface of a Saturn moon found organic matter, one of many ingredients that make an environment hospitable to extraterrestrial life, scientists said.
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While the jet plumes were mostly water vapor, the probe found traces of methane and simple organic compounds, said Hunter Waite of the Southwest Research Institute, who is the principal investigator of one of the spacecraft's instruments.
"We clearly have the organics and are closing in on the question of liquid water in the interior," Waite said.
In 2005, Cassini spied gigantic geysers spewing from fractures known as tiger stripes on the moon's south pole. Scientists theorized that reservoirs of liquid water below the surface were likely supplying the ice and vapor seen in the plumes.
(via discovery news)
Posted by Groonk at April 1, 2008 11:27 AM | Ministry of Space
