Saturn’s magnetosphere contains trapped plasma and energetic charged particles which constantly irradiate the surface of Enceladus.
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Interstellar Ices: A Factory of the Origin-of-Life Molecules
In the past few years, molecular discovery in space has made tremendous progress in terms of both the number of identified molecules and their complexity.