Kartavya Kant Tiwari

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has been found to eject organic molecules from its geysers. Around twenty years after NASA's Cassini spacecraft first sampled the plumes. These molecules contain carbon, are part of chemical reactions that can form life's building blocks. The plumes, fed by a subsurface ocean beneath Enceladus' fractured surface. This expels water vapour into space, forming part of Saturn's E-ring. New analysis of archived Cassini data brings to light a few information that pristine ice grains in the plumes carry these organics directly from the ocean, untouched by radiation. Cassini Data Confirms Enceladus' Ocean Shoots Organic Molecules That Could Support Life According to a report in Nature Astronomy, a group of experts led by Nozair Khawaja at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Stuttgart re-evaluated Cassini's Cosmic Dust Analyser data from 2008. Their study brings out that organic molecules in the ice grains match those found in t...