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Oxygen discovered around Saturn moon

By T.K. Randall
March 3, 2012 · Comment icon 17 comments

Image Credit: NASA
Scientists believe all of Saturn's moons may have oxygen around them, but could anything be living there?
While Dione itself doesn't seem to be a likely candidate due to its lack of water, other moons in the Saturnian system do. "Some of the other moons have liquid oceans and so it is worth looking more closely at them for signs of life," said professor Andrew Coates. As more and more discoveries are made about the moons around our solar system's gas giants it seems the more possible the idea of finding life on one of them becomes.
A Nasa spacecraft has detected oxygen around one of Saturn's icy moons, Dione. The discovery supports a theory that suggests all of the moons near Saturn and Jupiter might have oxygen around them.


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Comment icon #8 Posted by freeman88 12 years ago
i see someone else already linked the nasa article, i missed that.
Comment icon #9 Posted by ollyhw45 12 years ago
how can they have liquid waters being so far from the sun?
Comment icon #10 Posted by freeman88 12 years ago
how can they have liquid waters being so far from the sun? they are bodies of liquid methane and ethane of which are only possible at very low temp and high pressure.
Comment icon #11 Posted by Xanthurion2 12 years ago
awesome
Comment icon #12 Posted by 27vet 12 years ago
If there is water (which seems to have been found in various places), then there is oxygen.
Comment icon #13 Posted by Abramelin 12 years ago
how can they have liquid waters being so far from the sun? By socalled tidal forces.
Comment icon #14 Posted by jules99 12 years ago
how can they have liquid waters being so far from the sun? Hi; As Abe said, tidal forces, check out Jupiters moon Io for tidal volcanism and Europa for possible liquid ocean under ice .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_%28moon%29
Comment icon #15 Posted by UniqueWolf 12 years ago
We may be able to find planets near us that could hold life. Instead of out own. Though I highly doubt we would find life. For how big the universe is (or so scientists tell us) it would be impossible for us (us meaning humans, other animals, and any other living thing) to be the only living creatures in the universe. But with the universe being so big the chances of that other planet with living creatures in it is, well, pretty near impossible. If there is any alien reading this (for some odd reason) I beg you to prove me wrong.
Comment icon #16 Posted by space11498 12 years ago
how can they have liquid waters being so far from the sun? Because the core ofany planet is hot so with its heat the water can be liquid.
Comment icon #17 Posted by Waspie_Dwarf 12 years ago
Because the core ofany planet is hot so with its heat the water can be liquid. Not true. The correct explanation (tidal forces) had already been given. Earth has an extremely hot core, but (unless you happen to be close to a volcano) the temperature st the surface is down to energy from the sun. Only on the case of the gas giants is internal temperature a significant factor in determining the surface temperature.
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