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"This is the first time that complex organisms from an extraterrestrial aquatic world have been detected". The statement is from Frank Postberg on the Space.com website. The scientist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany is responsible for the study that indicates this new discovery on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, which was published in the journal Nature.
This is another stage of scientific research that suggests the possible existence of life in the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
The discovery of the existence of complex organic molecules occurs after badysis of the information collected by the Cbadini probe a feather of the moon and the E ring of Saturn, made of grains of ice, expelled by the Enceladus. In 2015, the data showed that under the ice layer of Enceladus there is liquid water.
At the time, scientists detected simple organisms, composed of carbon, but this new study now indicates that there are complex organic molecules from this moon.
Scientists warn, however, that these new discoveries are not solid proof of life, since "biological reactions are not the only potential sources of complex organic molecules," writes Space.com. The next step is to return to Enceladus, "and see if there is extraterrestrial life," Postberg said. "Nowhere else can a potentially habitable alien ocean habitat be easily studied by a space mission as in the case of Enceladus," he said.
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