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Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons

98 points · 74 comments · geox

  1. jibal · · focus · HN ↗
    > In fact, spacecrafts already in planning could be used to identify evidence of life there much easier than previously thought, should it exist.

    But there's no reason to think that it does.

    1. gmueckl · · focus · HN ↗
      Why not? Friction from tidal forces keeps the moon got enough to contain liquid water under its ice cover. This makes it similar to Europa in some ways.
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