Saturn’s moon Enceladus is home to a huge reservoir of melted water beneath its surface, and could be a source for alien microbes, scientists said on Thursday.
The first measurements of the subsurface water at the south pole of the small and icy moon were made by the US space agency’s Cassini spacecraft, and are described in the journal Science.
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