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    Key Building Block for Life found at Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

    June 16, 2023, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Diagram of phosphorus discovered at Saturn's moon Enceladus
     SwRI Lead Scientist Dr. Christopher Glein was part of a team that found phosphorus, a key building block for life, from the subsurface ocean of Saturn’s small moon, Enceladus. Liquid water erupts from the moon’s subsurface ocean, forming a plume that contains grains of frozen ocean water. Some of these ice grains go on to form Saturn’s E ring. The team analyzed Cassini spacecraft data from ice grains in the E ring, which revealed fingerprints of soluble phosphate salts from Enceladus’ ocean. Courtesy of SwRI and Freie Universität Berlin

    The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system just got more exciting. A team of scientists including Southwest Research Institute’s Dr...

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    Researcher Helps Identify New Evidence for Habitability in Ocean of Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

    September 20, 2022, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Enceladus logo graphic
    SwRI Lead Scientist Dr. Christopher Glein contributed to new findings that phosphorus in the form of orthophosphate (e.g., HPO4-2) is likely abundant in the subsurface ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

    The search for extraterrestrial life has just become more interesting as a team of scientists, including Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Christopher Glein, has discovered new evidence for a key building block for life in the subsurface ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. New modeling indicates that Enceladus’s ocean should be relatively rich in dissolved phosphorus, an essential ingredient for life.

    “Enceladus is one of the prime targets in humanity’s search for life in our solar system,” said Glein, a leading expert in extraterrestrial oceanography...

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