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Scientists used a method from ecology to identify whether icy moons could hold conditions for life
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Scientists have adapted ecological methods to assess whether subsurface oceans on icy moons like Enceladus and Europa could harbour conditions suitable for life, ahead of future space missions to these environments.
Scientists used a method from ecology to identify whether icy moons could hold conditions for life
Future missions may sample environments that could host life, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus. Jason Major, Cassini spacecraft/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA
New observatories and spacecraft missions are probing environments in our solar system that could potentially host life but have long remained hidden. Icy moons like Saturn’s Enceladus and Jupiter’s Europa likely contain oceans beneath frozen outer shells. But a layer of ice prohibits space probes from sampling them directly.
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