Using the tools of chemistry to search for life in space

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The Cassini spacecraft studied Saturn’s moon Enceladus, among others, from
The Cassini spacecraft studied Saturn’s moon Enceladus, among others, from 2004 to 2017. Photo: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute (Public domain), commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php’curid=313713
Phosphorus is one of the building blocks of life and has never been discovered beyond Earth. Scientists from Germany, Japan and the USA have now proven that phosphorus salts can be found in an ocean under the ice of Saturn’s moon Enceladus and have published their findings in the journal Nature. Among them is Bernd Abel from the Institute of Technical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig. In an interview, he explains the role that chemists have recently begun to play in space exploration.

Professor Abel, you are part of an international research team that has evaluated measurement results from the Cassini space probe and simulated them in laboratory experiments. This probe explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017. ...
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