#spacewater — Public Fediverse posts
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#Enceladus’ subsurface ocean 🌊 has #hydrothermal vents on its seafloor. Enceladus’ ocean contains molecular hydrogen — which #NASA has called “candy for microbes” 🦠 — as well as other building blocks for life, Iike carbon dioxide and methane. It’s pretty similar to the conditions that allowed ocean life to propagate on early Earth. https://www.planetary.org/articles/where-are-the-ocean-worlds-in-our-solar-system