Enceladus mission: Search for Life
"Does life really exist beyond Earth?" Illustration of the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus showing a global liquid water ocean between its rocky core and icy crust. The thickness of the layers shown here is not to scale. Credit: ESA Search for life on other planets has always been one of the most intriguing yet important parts of space exploration. But this time it is not on a planet but on a moon. Saturn's moon Enceladus has been hiding a queer world of water under its cover which possesses the possibility of having a life. Of course, the nature of the species is itself mystical. It may be microorganisms, aliens, or some strange kind of species that may or may not be harmful to us. A string of probes has been sent to Enceladus: Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and Cassini. But the most prominent discoveries were made during the Cassini Mission. Let's have a look at how it all came to the fore. Cassini and its findings A ...