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Ouzo Dan Flag Behind you 27 Oct 15 7.24pm Send a Private Message to Ouzo Dan Add Ouzo Dan as a friend

The Saturnian moon of Enceladus is one of our best hopes for finding life within our solar system.

Enceladus is an icy moon with a salt water liquid ocean locked away under its frozen surface, it manages this despite a surface temperature of -200 due to gravitational pulling between Saturn & its neighboring moons in essence constantly stretching & squeezing the moon thus keeping its core very similar to earth.

What makes Enceladus even more interesting is there are deep cracks on the surface of this moon which go all the way down to the liquid ocean below, these cracks create enormous Geysers that fire water vapor out into space.

In about 20 hours the cassini probe will travel within 30 miles of the surface of enceladus & right through these geysers (the distance is less than Croydon to Brighton so its pretty damn remarkable).

Cassini was never designed for a mission like this but has a ton of equipment on board to detect all sorts of things & who knows we might even detect evidence of microbial life as these geysers are really not too dissimilar to the thermal vents you find in our oceans

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The mountains are calling & I must go.

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lankygit Flag Lincoln 27 Oct 15 8.31pm Send a Private Message to lankygit Add lankygit as a friend


We will just have to wait and see.
If life is found there the implications would be enormous.
With that in mind, would the fact be made public if life was found?

 


Is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour? [Link]

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Ouzo Dan Flag Behind you 27 Oct 15 8.51pm Send a Private Message to Ouzo Dan Add Ouzo Dan as a friend

It will take the best part of 7 months to get all the information from this deep dive, we do however stand to learn a lot from this

It would be near impossible to keep evidence of life on Enceladus a secret given how many people are involved.

 


The mountains are calling & I must go.

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Hoof Hearted 28 Oct 15 10.06am

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Click on the link if anyone else was as disappointed as me... having misread the thread title as Enchiladas

 

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regal_eagle Flag somewhere 28 Oct 15 10.57am Send a Private Message to regal_eagle Add regal_eagle as a friend

I thought this was a close-up of Ola Jordan's calendar for a second

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