Figure 27-6: R I V U X G
Subsurface Ocean on Enceladus Plumes containing water vapor and dissolved minerals indicate a subsurface ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Organic compounds, in concentrations 20 times higher than expected, were also detected in the plumes. As on Earth, liquid water with dissolved minerals and organic compounds could be a suitable setting for life.
Subsurface Ocean on Enceladus Plumes containing water vapor and dissolved minerals indicate a subsurface ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Organic compounds, in concentrations 20 times higher than expected, were also detected in the plumes. As on Earth, liquid water with dissolved minerals and organic compounds could be a suitable setting for life.
(NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)