Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
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Re: Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
#2"a force of 800 miles per hour"
It's Newsweek, but still...
Re: Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
#3I couldn't read this on iOS as I kept being forcibly thrown into the App Store by some advert. If anyone else is having trouble, you can read the article here: https://archive.is/tPvTT
Re: Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
#4Nothing definite in here, just theories needs more research. Just a shinny news title
Re: Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
#5Better link : https://phys.org/news/2017-04-scientists-evidence-habitable-...
By the way, it's already a month old, there's nothing new since Cassini's last trip.
Also, can't believe Newsweek did a mistake like that if not for clicks...
"Update: An earlier headline read that signs of life were found on Enceladus. We regret any misunderstanding this headline may have caused. NASA has discovered that Enceladus is habitable, not inhabited."
Re: Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
#6So there's this big hydrogen vent in a moon of Saturn. Where's the energy coming from to drive that? Too far from the sun. Enceladus is tidally locked to Saturn, so there are no tidal forces. Enceladus has very low orbital eccentricity, a near-circular orbit, so there are very low tidal forces from that. Some phenomenon must provide energy for the hydrogen jet.
Re: Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
#7"Update: An earlier headline read that signs of life were found on Enceladus. We regret any misunderstanding this headline may have caused. NASA has discovered that Enceladus is habitable, not inhabited. "
Wow. Maybe basic transport is not the first area where intelligent machines will make their human counterpart superfluous. I'm sure machines can do better than this.
Re: Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
#8So there's this big hydrogen vent in a moon of Saturn. Where's the energy coming from to drive that? Too far from the sun. Enceladus is tidally locked to Saturn, so there are no tidal forces. Enceladus has very low orbital eccentricity, a near-circular orbit, so there are very low tidal forces from that. Some phenomenon must provide energy for the hydrogen jet.
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Re: Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
#9So there's this big hydrogen vent in a moon of Saturn. Where's the energy coming from to drive that? Too far from the sun. Enceladus is tidally locked to Saturn, so there are no tidal forces. Enceladus has very low orbital eccentricity, a near-circular orbit, so there are very low tidal forces from that. Some phenomenon must provide energy for the hydrogen jet.
Couldn't it just be pressurised hydrogen?
Re: Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
#10This article seems written to sound as spectacular as possible while hiding anything that might lead to real understanding.
"Habitable" makes it sound like we could move there and live there without too much trouble. That's not true. What has been discovered is that microorganisms might be able to live there, near hydrothermic vents that seem to create free hydrogen, which could support primitive life. That life could be similar to life living around hydrothermic vents on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. No sign of life itself, though, just a process that could theoretically sustain life without requiring sunlight.