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Jeff Nagle

Ice geysers could spew alien microbes into space from Enceladus' ocean


While on a world like Mars, we might have to dig underground to find life, or go miles under the ice on Jupiter’s moon Europa, one of the best targets for finding alien life could send life right up to a passing space probe. That’s according to a paper published last month in the Planetary Science Journal, which finds that the ice geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus may propel its potential lifeforms right out into space.

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