The team used data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which flew over Saturn years ago, to detect the presence of phosphorus on the moon Enceladus.
is about the size of Arizona. The white, extremely cold moon orbits Saturn roughly 790 million miles from Earth.
“Enceladus has a soda ocean, rich in baking soda,” or sodium bicarbonate, Glein has said. “Our models show that this difference drives a much higher solubility of phosphate minerals, which makes phosphorus readily available for possible life in the Enceladus ocean.” Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he worked “remotely” with colleagues in Texas, Germany and Japan to find “abundant phosphorus in plume ice samples spraying out of the subsurface ocean.”
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