Enceladus, a Saturn moon just 500 kilometres wide, fires geysers of water thousands of kilometres into space through cracks at its south pole — and that water carries the building blocks of life

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Enceladus is only about 500 kilometres across, yet it continuously ejects water vapour and ice from fractures near its south pole. The James Webb Space Telescope has mapped that water as far as 10,000 kilometres from the moon, while measurements from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show that the spray carries salts, phosphates, molecular hydrogen and varied [...] The post Enceladus, a Saturn moon just 500 kilometres wide, fires geysers of water thousands of kilometres into space through cracks at its south pole — and that water carries the building blocks of life appeared first on Space Daily .