Salt in Enceladus

Date- Jul 09 Source- http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmghome.pl

'Saturn's moon hides salt water Saturn's moon Enceladus may be harbouring pre-biotic processes! A European instrument team on the joint ESA-NASA Cassini-Huygens mission to the ringed planet has discovered sodium salts in the ice grains of the planet's outermost ring. This ring is replenished by the geysers on the small icy moon Enceladus. In a paper just published in Nature, the scientists using data from the Cosmic Dust Analyser developed at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, say the detection of salt implies that the moon has ocean-sized reservoirs of water beneath its surface. Conditions there could provide a suitable environment for the formation of life's precursors. This video provides extensive imagery of Enceladus and explanations of this discovery by Dr. Ralf SRAMA, the Principal Investigator of the Cosmic Dust Analyser instrument.'

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Enceladus
• saturn
• Cassini-Huygens

[arsviatticae]

Ralph, what a nordic guy!

[Roundtheworld360]

Burrow through a couple miles of ice, we might hit a warmer area of slush. Dig deeper, perhaps a salty oceam teeming with organic compounds...

[cbk0verk1ll]

no doubt that theres life on that moon

[Ramshobraja]

I do wonder if we can meet the challenge to explore the subsurface oceans.

[leftcoastcrazy]

Another triumph of science. I'm packing my malt vinegar for Fish 'n Chips on Enceladus. Reservations?

[stargazer646]

Good news and very good video thanks again steve 5/5

[superfisto]

informative with beautiful animation

5/5