Artificial image of the Cassini spacecraft analyzing ice grains ejected during the passage of ice fountains from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Researchers at Freie Universität Berlin Publish Study in the Journal Astrobiology. Artificial image of the Cassini spacecraft analyzing ice grains ejected during the passage of ice fountains from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech - In the future, space missions would be at least technically capable of detecting DNA, lipids, and other components of bacteria on ocean moons in our solar system - if such building blocks of life exist outside Earth. This has now been demonstrated in laboratory experiments by an international team led by scientists from the Planetary Science and Remote Sensing Research Group at Freie Universität Berlin. The study was carried out as part of the research project "Habitat OASIS," which is funded by the European Research Council with an ERC Consolidator Grant, and was published on Friday in the scientific journal Astrobiology. Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, is famous for the cryovolcanic fountains it ejects into space. These fountains consist largely of ice grains that originate from a subterranean water ocean.
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