If you’ve been paying attention, you may have heard of the moon Enceladus, which the space probe Cassini launched by NASA had ran through a large vent of water vapour expelling out. This in turn, shows the planet has an ocean under the service with molten magma expelling hot vapour from the vent. When you see this on earth, you may realize that thermal vents like this are a flourishing ecosystem full of organisms which convert methane into energy, and the planet also contains Oxygen, Hydrogen, and carbon. (suspected both phosphorus and sulfur are inside the moons core). The water was also salty, meaning there was a high concentration of both sodium and chlorine on the planet, leading us to believe that there is saltwater-habitant creatures. The planet is fairly young, so the life may not have come to be quite yet, but they’ll be keeping updates.
Submitted December 20, 2018 at 04:37PM by DeathCrow89 https://ift.tt/2LxGb0w
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