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Aperiodic reminder that Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus has a subsurface liquid water ocean that it's blasting into space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

Including complex organic chemicals! One day we might find life there

I'd be shocked if we did. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tidal heating from Saturn's gravity as a heat source?

Ah I see it's covered in your study. Fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

I think these locales are not promising for life, at least not today. And Enceladus is *so* small, even the modern chemical reactions taking place there have a big hill to climb to support abiogenesis, much less sustain it.

What do you think about Europa?

Dead as a doornail today. Might have had some action back in the day, but the problem then isn't so much supporting an ecosystem, it's keeping it going over geological time.

Makes sense altho the sci fi fan in me is in deep denial. Thanks for responding!