Signs of Water Found On Saturnian Moon Enceladus

Matt_dk writes "Scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus. Their findings, based on analysis from data taken in plume fly-throughs in 2008 and reported in the journal Icarus, provide evidence for the presence of liquid water, which suggests the ingredients for life inside the icy moon. The Cassini plasma spectrometer, used to gather this data, also found other species of negatively charged ions including hydrocarbons."

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Re:The pendulum swinging

[shabtai87]

> overestimating the probability there just out of love for 2001

I'm afraid I can't let you do that JoshuaZ...

Re:The pendulum swinging

[SnarfQuest]

What they don't want to tell you about their proof, is that it consists of a large pile of empty plastic bottles, with pictures of mountains on them. However, the labels translate to "city tap water" instead of "pure artisian spring water", so they are obviously not from an intelligent civilization.