The picture in the previous post was MY photo of the day, but here’s the REAL photo of the day, a Cassini image of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Why? Because NASA scientists believe Enceladus has liquid water. And:
“‘We realize that this is a radical conclusion — that we may have evidence for liquid water within a body so small and so cold,’ said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. ‘However, if we are right, we have significantly broadened the diversity of solar system environments where we might possibly have conditions suitable for living organisms.'”
From the Bloomberg story on the discovery:
“Any life that existed could not be luxuriant and would have to deal with low temperatures, feeble metabolic energy and perhaps a severe chemical environment,” said Jeffrey Kargel of the hydrology and water resources department at the University of Arizona in Tucson. “Nevertheless we cannot discount the possibility that Enceladus might be life’s distant outpost.”
In the photo, the blue-green “tiger stripes” are believed to be the source of the water jets detected on the moon.
