Posted on 04/03/2014 4:05:11 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
For years, the motto among astrobiologists — people who look for life on distant worlds, and try to understand what life is, exactly — has been “follow the water.” You have to start the search somewhere, and scientists have started with liquid water because it’s the essential agent for all biochemistry on Earth.
Now they’ve followed the water to a small, icy moon orbiting Saturn. Scientists reported Thursday that Enceladus, a shiny world about 300 miles in diameter, has a subsurface “regional sea” with a rocky bottom.
This cryptic body of water is centered around the south pole and is upwards of 5 miles deep. It has a volume similar to that of Lake Superior, according to the new research, which was published in the journal Science.
The moon’s liquid reservoir had already been inferred from the presence of plumes of water vapor emerging from the south pole. The plumes stunned scientists when they were detected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2005. . .
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Not a muslim priority. In fact, it could be viewed as anti-quranic.
Did they/will they find MH370?
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Yea Messing with the MOONS would likely set pf one of the Biggest Fatwas of all time...
Life, something they call life. Yet if quizzed many of these same people would kill a child in the womb and never think twice about it.
Sorry, off topic. It would be cool if there were living organisms found there.
Even better for him than on mt Rushmore.
Europa should be the priority, but it’s nice to know there’s another target in the solar system
6o Moons....INDEED.
The sheer grandiosity of it all should appeal to his momumental sense of Importance.
Yes. That’s three more moons the. States even. Plus all those rings he can Executive Order to go around him. Instant immortality.
Pancake Ping!
Blinks like the lizard he is.
Indeed he is! The lord of the flies....aka Lizard Boy!
Reminded me of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, and the Neal Adams video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy3_sWF7tv4&index=6&list=PLOdOXoiGTICLdHklMhj9Al8G-1ZLXGEP2
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