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An artist’s rendition of Saturn’s moon Enceladus depicts hydrothermal activity on the seafloor and cracks in the moon’s icy crust that allow material from the watery interior to be ejected into space. New research shows that instruments destined for the next missions could find traces of a single cell in a single ice grain contained in a plume. NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Signs Of Life Are Detectable In A Single Ice Grain Emitted From Icy Moons

by Keith CowingMarch 23, 2024March 23, 2024

The ice-encrusted oceans of some of the moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter are leading candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life. A new lab-based study led by the University of […]

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Signs Of Life Are Detectable In A Single Ice Grain Emitted From Icy Moons

South Pole-Aitken Basin Sample Return And eXploration (SPARX) Science Definition Team Report

PAHSPECS: JWST/MIRI Spectroscopy Of PAHs at Cosmic Noon

Looking Inside Living Antarctic Cells For The First Time

Computational Modeling Of An RNA-peptide World

NASA Selects PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class