Saturn's moon Enceladus is one of the Solar System's prime extraterrestrial locations for life to thrive.
"On our planet, hydrothermal vents teem with life, big and small, in spite of darkness and insane pressure," Ferrière said."The simplest living creatures there are microbes called methanogens that power themselves even in the absence of sunlight."
They then modeled the likelihood that cells and other biological molecules would be ejected through the vents and how much of these materials we would be likely to find. "Enceladus' biosphere may be very sparse. And yet our models indicate that it would be productive enough to feed the plumes with just enough organic molecules or cells to be picked up by instruments onboard a future spacecraft."
Even then, there might not be enough biological material, and the chance that a cell might survive the trip through the ice and being spewed out into space is probably pretty slim.
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