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March 10, 2006
Enceladus the Storyteller
The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan has discovered what may be liquid water on Saturn's moon, Enceladus. An impressive finding in itself and all the more improbable given the local real estate is only 314 miles across. Anyone put off the news because Enceladus sounds like a Taco Bell offering should know is quite pretty, actually.
"We realize that this is a radical conclusion -- that we may have evidence for liquid water within a body so small and so cold," said Dr. Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. "However, if we are right, we have significantly broadened the diversity of solar system environments where we might possibly have conditions suitable for living organisms."
Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 10, 2006 08:17 AM
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