{"id":9172,"date":"2018-06-27T18:50:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T01:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9172"},"modified":"2018-07-30T18:55:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T01:55:40","slug":"life-on-enceladus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/27\/life-on-enceladus\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on Enceladus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2018\/06\/saturn-moon-enceladus-complex-organics-life-space-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from National Geographic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"main-title md-title sentence-case\">Right Stuff for Life Found on Small Saturn Moon<\/h1>\n<h2>Data from a dead spacecraft suggest that this world may be the best place besides Earth for life as we know it.<\/h2>\n<p>BY <span class=\"byline-component__contributors\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ib.adnxs.com\/seg?add=1&amp;redir=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalgeographic.com%2Fcontributors%2Fd%2Fnadia-drake.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>NADIA DRAKE<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/epZdZaEQhS0\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Saturn\u2019s small moon Enceladus, perpetual fountains of alien seawater launch all sorts of curious stuff into space: water, salt, silica, and even simple carbon-containing compounds fly into the void\u2014many of which are ingredients for life as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists working with data from a dead spacecraft have discovered something even more potentially intriguing: heavy organic compounds containing hundreds of atoms arranged in rings and chains. These are the most complex organic molecules uncovered so far at Enceladus, and\u2014sorry, Europa\u2014they may make the moon the most promising place in our solar system to search for life beyond Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we know today is telling us that Enceladus is an outstanding target to go look for life, and there may be microbes living in that ocean today,\u201d says Cornell University\u2019s Jonathan Lunine.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2018\/06\/saturn-moon-enceladus-complex-organics-life-space-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at NatGeo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from National Geographic Right Stuff for Life Found on Small Saturn Moon Data from a dead spacecraft suggest that this world may be the best place besides Earth for life as we know it. BY NADIA DRAKE On Saturn\u2019s small moon Enceladus, perpetual fountains of alien seawater launch all sorts of curious stuff into space: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}