• Enceladus confirmed to have ocean
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[URL="http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21600083-planetary-science"]http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21600083-planetary-science[/URL] [URL="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/03/ocean-enceladus-alien-life-water-saturn-moon"]http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/03/ocean-enceladus-alien-life-water-saturn-moon[/URL] [QUOTE]"There are definitely regions on Enceladus where the conditions are such that life could exist. You have liquid water, you have chemicals and you have heat. And that is enough for life. To my mind, this is the best place we can expect to find life elsewhere in the solar system," Brilliantov told the Guardian. "On Mars there are some signs of water in the past, but now we have very, very serious indications that liquid water exists in Enceladus," Brilliantov said. "It's technically possible to send a probe that could drill a hole and test the water to see if we are alone in the universe or if something else lives here." Chris McKay, an astrobiologist at Nasa's Ames Research Centre in California, said: "There are now several lines of evidence – the geysers, the plume chemistry, and now gravity – that indicate a substantial body of liquid water. For astrobiology this is confirmation of what we expected and is good news. My one view is that Enceladus should be the priority." Writing in the journal Astrobiology this week, McKay makes the case for an Enceladus flyby mission to return samples of the water vapour plumes and look for biomolecular evidence of life. "With samples of the organic material from the plume, we could search in terrestrial laboratories for organic biomarkers that would be conclusive evidence for life," he writes.[/QUOTE]
Its mine now.
The reptilians may be taking refuge on their sea floor base. [IMG]http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/meet-the-creatures-reptilian0.jpg[/IMG] What is the other planet whose moon has water?
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