Well there might be facts and figures still battling against each other to prove that there is life on planet Jupiter’s moon Europa, but here is an interesting revelation by a senior scientist on the Cassini spacecraft, who had been studying on Saturn and its moon Enceladus that the latter contains life. This fact was revealed by Bob Brown of the University of Arizona, Tucson, who heads the scientific team for Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (Vims). Past records of Cassini’s flyby of 173km over Enceladus shows that there were gases present in the cracks called as tiger-stripes and these gases made up the atmosphere, these gases have now jutted out of the space to form Saturn’s E-Ring and this E-ring is made of water vapor.
As per Brown:
We very clearly saw water; there’s water everywhere on Enceladus, it’s 99.9 percent water ice in general at the surface, and we’ve known that for years, so it wasn’t a big surprise, but when we started looking at our spectra we saw absorption bands from a compound that had to have carbon and hydrogen bonded together. And when we mapped the location, it was right in these ‘tiger stripes’ - right where the jets are coming out, and right where it’s hot - and it’s pretty hard to imagine it’s getting there from anywhere but inside.
This just proves that as for Cassini team and the common man it is difficult to understand the jets that contain components which forms life.
