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    Signs of Life would be Detectable in Single Ice Grain Emitted from Extraterrestrial Moons

    March 26, 2024, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    cartoon of icy moon with ocean interior covered with thin yellow stripe
    The drawing on the left depicts Enceladus and its ice-covered ocean, with cracks near the south pole that are believed to penetrate through the icy crust. The middle panel shows where authors believe life could thrive: at the top of the water, in a proposed thin layer (shown yellow) like on Earth’s oceans. The right panel shows that as gas bubbles rise and pop, bacterial cells could get lofted into space with droplets that then become the ice grains that were detected by Cassini.European Space Agency

    Could life be found in frozen sea spray from moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter? New research finds that life can be detected in a single ice grain containing one bacterial cell or portions of a cell...

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