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According to authors of an article published in the journal Nature, the sea inside Saturn’s Mimas formed within the past 25 million years. The theory of the deep ocean is based off of data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
NASA scientists found more compelling evidence that Saturn's moon Enceladus may be a habitable world. They concluded the ocean moon harbors hydrogen cyanide, a critical molecule for life.
Astrobiologists suspect there could be alien life just out of reach in our solar system, in oceans hidden beneath icy crusts on moons circling Jupiter and Saturn. But unlike the surface of Mars, which can be explored by rovers and landers, these mysterious oceans are currently inaccessible to us. In an effort to change that, researchers convened this year to design a novel mission that could finally reveal what’s in those distant water worlds.
Data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that CO2 ice on Jupiter’s moon Europa is coming from its underground ocean—where extraterrestrial life could exist in theory.
Phosphorus was detected in salty ice grains that were released into space by plumes that erupt between the cracks of the moon’s ice shell.