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Therefore, only 3 of the 19 flybys of Enceladus completed so far have been used for gravity measurements.

But liquid water can be found in as far away places as Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa.

We can learn much more about life in our universe by exploring Europa, Enceladus and Titan.

If there is an sea on Enceladus then there will already be microbial life there [0].

To answer the question about if life is rare we need to visit Europa and Enceladus in our solar system.

If there are whales on Europa, Titan, or Enceladus then it would seem easier for us to damage their ecosystem than the other way around.

I'm surprised that we aren't equally worried about contaminating Enceladus with terran microbes.

The geysers on Enceladus are another example.

(But there are some horror stories of heavy editorialized titles.) On the other hand I didn’t know Enceladus until today.

There is really no way of proving transpermia - even if we to travel to Enceladus and found microbial life there how would we ever prove how it got there.

But in this case, the plan (as I understand it) is to collect samples from the plumes of water that Enceladus shoots out into space, without ever landing on the surface.

McKay, who was not involved with gravity measurements, noted that only Enceladus was known to possess the four essential ingredients for life, at least as it exists on Earth: liquid water, energy, carbon and nitrogen.

Oh, and stay off Enceladus too." Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Flying by the moon at latitudes below –70°, the spacecraft interacts with the plume at distances of up to 500 km from Enceladus’ surface..." Amazing results.

(I fist thought the story was about Titan.) My preferred title for the HN submission would be “Enceladus, A Moon of Saturn, Has a Sea” or “A Moon of Saturn [Enceladus] Has a Sea”.

We determined Enceladus’ quadrupole gravity field and degree-3 zonal harmonic coefficient J3 from measurements of spacecraft range-rate.

Along with Saturn's moon Enceladus, it's the most promising place to look for other forms of life.

What makes Europa more likely to contain life than other moons thought to contain oceans like Callisto, Ganymede, Titan, Enceladus...