Water found on Saturn's moon

[pHoToN_gUrL]

Scientists believe that they discovered water on one of the Saturn's icy moons. This discovery was made by the Cassini spacecraft, and shows evidence of liquid water resources that erupt from natural hot springs on Saturn's moon Enceladus.

 

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-03-09T221913Z_01_N09208250_RTRUKOC_0_US-SPACE-SATURN.xml

[herpguy]

An amazing find. I hope there is liquid water on Enceladus, then there may be life. It would be very interesting if there is life that far away from the Sun. If I was the president of a major space organization, I would start a campaign to make a spacecraft to land on Enceladus and look for signs of life. I hope NASA or another organization will do this.

[Daecon]

"Both water vapor and water particles were observed, as well as a smattering of other compounds such as methane and carbon dioxide"

 

Well that sounds promising...

[JustStuit]

Nature also talked about nitrate compounds, ammonium or ammonia I believe in a podcast.

[herpguy]

"Both water vapor and water particles were observed' date=' as well as a smattering of other compounds such as methane and carbon dioxide"[/i']

 

Well that sounds promising...

Indeed. It has the basic building blocks of life.

"I think the best you can say is there is biological potential. We have liquid water probably, and it is in contact with rocks so there are minerals," she said. "And there is energy. But we haven't detected life."