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Inside – Saturn Moon Ice Geyser Hints at Life ‘Out There’

March 11, 2006

It’s not like discovering life in outer space, but it’s awfully close. Scientists think there may be underground reservoirs of liquid water – a must for life – on Enceladus. A photograph by the Cassini spacecraft shows what appears to be a geyser of ice and vapor pulsing from the moon’s south pole.