At first glance, Saturn's moon Enceladus seems rather unremarkable: it is much smaller than the Earth's moon and is far away and completely covered in ice.
Yet beneath its frozen crust lies an ocean of liquid water, making it one of the most promising locations in the solar system in the search for extraterrestrial life.
"Where there is water, life is possible," said astrobiologist Nozair Khawaja, who leads a research team at the Free University of Berlin. Experiments are set to begin soon to determine which substances could form under conditions similar to those on Enceladus.\
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