Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is an attractive target in the search for life – new research

By Flynn Ames, PhD candidate, Meteorology, University of Reading

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system. A new study strengthens the case for Enceladus being a habitable world.

The data for those new research findings comes from the Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004-2017. In 2005, Cassini discovered geyser-like plumes of water vapour and ice grains erupting continuously out of cracks in Enceladus’ icy shell.

In the latest study, Nozair Khawaja, from the…

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