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Enceladus, a Saturn moon just 500 kilometres wide, fires geysers of water thousands of kilometres into space through cracks at its south pole - and that water carries the building blocks of life

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Enceladus, a Saturn moon just 500 kilometres wide, fires geysers of water thousands of kilometres into space through cracks at its south pole - and that water carries the building blocks of life
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Saturn's moon Enceladus is ejecting water and organic compounds into space through geysers at its south pole. Data from the Cassini mission and the James Webb Space Telescope suggest these emissions contain the chemical building blocks necessary for life.

Enceladus is only about 500 kilometres across, yet it continuously ejects water vapour and ice from fractures near its south pole.

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