Space exploration has reached a new level. NASA announced the big news on Independent.co.uk that the phosphate was found Saturn’s planet Enceladus The moon, in a groundbreaking new discovery that boosts hopes of finding alien life in our solar system.
This is the first time that phosphorus has been found in an ocean outside Earth, they said, and represents a major advance in our understanding of other ocean worlds.
Enceladus is one of the most likely hopes for finding life near Earth
Experts believe that the outer layer of Saturn’s moon Enceladus is covered with ice, but underneath there is a global ocean that could be home to alien life. Scientists have been able to examine these plumes to better understand the ocean itself, including the new study.
In the latest study, researchers used data from the Cassini mission – which flew by Saturn and Enceladus – to learn what the oceans are made of.
Not only did they find phosphorous, but based on the data, they concluded that it could be present in a concentration at least a hundred times higher than it is in Earth’s oceans.
Phosphorus alone is not evidence of life
as writtenbut on Earth, the presence of phosphorus compounds in water is critical to biological activity, so it is key to judging whether a distant world can support life.
