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101 Active Geysers Seen on Saturn’s Moon

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Discovered by NASA.

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Long dismissed as impossible, there is now a space race for the best possible site to find other forms of life. The Saturn moon Enceladus has taken the lead: 101 active geysers shooting water from cracks in its southern hemisphere have been discovered. That is important because water coming from deep inside the moon means there may be a reservoir of permanent liquid water there where life could thrive. The discovery came from images from NASA’s Cassini space probe and was announced in two papers in the Astronomical Journal.

Read it at Time