Life beyond Earth has finally been found; or so it seems

[jamesduncan]

Life beyond Earth has finally been found; or so it seems
There is a moon circling Saturn that has a warm core, covered in ice and spewing geysers. With a green hew around the geyser points.

Explanation: This cylindrical projection global map is one of six new color maps of Saturn's midsized icy moons, constructed using 10 years of image data from the Cassini spacecraft. Discovered by Cassini (the astronomer) in 1684, Dione is about 1,120 kilometers across. Based on data extending from infrared to ultraviolet, the full resolution of this latest space-age map is 250 meters per pixel. The remarkable brightness difference between the tidally locked moon's lighter leading hemisphere (right) and darker trailing hemisphere clearly stands out. Like other Saturn moons orbiting within the broad E-ring, Dione's leading hemisphere is kept shiny as it picks up a coating of the faint ring's icy material. The E-ring material is constantly replenished by geysers on moon Enceladus' south pole. Lighter, younger surface fractures also appear to cross the dark, cratered trailing hemisphere.

 

[Mac1958]

The green is definitely a hopeful sign. The best part of this is that it's in our solar system and we can theoretically get to it.

Dione, Enceladus, Titan, Europa - Hopefully soon we can land something on those moons and take a good look.

 

[Old Rocks]

Let's see. Chemical staining could do that, also. But it is definately interesting, and worthy of a special mission.

 

[jamesduncan]

Note:
The geyser's are spewing out saltwater

 

[jamesduncan]

Noon Titan

Building Block for 'Vinyl Life' Found on Saturn's Moon Titan

When winter comes to Titan’s poles, it brings seasonal downpours of toxic molecules that could, under the right conditions, assemble themselves into structures like the biological membranes that encase living cells on Earth.

Called vinyl cyanide, those molecules are created high in Titan’s atmosphere, and now, scientists know there’s a truckload of them tucked into the moon’s orange haze that probably rain down on its icy surface.

More than 10 billion tons of it could be floating in Ligeia Mare, the second-largest lake in the north, according to the paper

published today in Science Advances.

Noon Enceladus
Enceladus has attracted a lot of interest because it has an active pole that spews jets of material into outer space. During its last flyby over that pole, an instrument on board the Cassini spacecraft detected the presence of a biomarker—molecular hydrogen. This suggests that the ocean we know lies beneath the moon’s surface could indeed contain an ecosystem similar to the ones we find in deep-sea hydrothermal vents on Earth.

Hunter Waite, a researcher at the Southwestern Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, is the lead author of a paper describing the findings in an upcoming issue of Science. In the piece, the team explains that the molecular hydrogen (H2) content was measured using Cassini’s INMS instrument, a mass spectrometer capable of sniffing the molecular composition of gas that it captures.

A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.

Researchers found the magnitude of the moon's very slight wobble, as it orbits Saturn, can only be accounted for if its outer ice shell is not frozen solid to its interior, meaning a global ocean must be present.

The finding implies the fine spray of water vapor, icy particles and simple organic molecules Cassini has observed coming from fractures near the moon's south pole is being fed by this vast liquid water reservoir. The research is presented in a paper published online this week in the journal Icarus.

Astrophysicists working with NASA's Saturn sweeping Cassini spacecraft have just announced that Enceladus has a warm ocean at its southern pole with ongoing hydrothermal activity—the first ever discovered outside of Earth. This new research, published in the journal Nature, builds upon last year's discovery of the moon's 6-mile-deep ocean, which is also believed to contain many of the chemicals commonly associated with life.
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia19656_labeled.jpg

 

[fncceo]

Life beyond Earth has finally been found; or so it seems
There is a moon circling Saturn that has a warm core, covered in ice and spewing geysers. With a green hew around the geyser points.


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Explanation: This cylindrical projection global map is one of six new color maps of Saturn's midsized icy moons, constructed using 10 years of image data from the Cassini spacecraft. Discovered by Cassini (the astronomer) in 1684, Dione is about 1,120 kilometers across. Based on data extending from infrared to ultraviolet, the full resolution of this latest space-age map is 250 meters per pixel. The remarkable brightness difference between the tidally locked moon's lighter leading hemisphere (right) and darker trailing hemisphere clearly stands out. Like other Saturn moons orbiting within the broad E-ring, Dione's leading hemisphere is kept shiny as it picks up a coating of the faint ring's icy material. The E-ring material is constantly replenished by geysers on moon Enceladus' south pole. Lighter, younger surface fractures also appear to cross the dark, cratered trailing hemisphere.

The color cameras on Cassini are UV and spectrum filtered, those stripes aren't actually green. They are what are known to planetoligists as 'false-color images'.

"The ridges that surround the tiger stripes are often covered in coarse-grained, crystalline water ice.[1][5] This material appears dark in the Cassini camera's IR3 filter (central wavelength 930 nanometers), giving the tiger stripes a dark appearance in clear-filter images and a blue-green appearance in false-color, near-ultraviolet, green, near-infrared images. The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) instrument also detected trapped carbon dioxide ice and simple organics within the tiger stripes.[5] Simple organic material has not been detected anywhere else on the surface of Enceladus."

 

[jamesduncan]

.,.,.,.,.,The color cameras on Cassini are UV and spectrum filtered, those stripes aren't actually green. They are what are known to planetoligists as 'false-color images'. .,.,.-

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[jamesduncan]

The color cameras on Cassini are UV and spectrum filtered, those stripes aren't actually green. They are what are known to planetoligists as 'false-color mages'.

After thinking about your statement I disagree. Not only do the cameras use UV and spectrum filtering but they also pick up true color images as well. I doubt the photo color "green" is a byproduct of UV or spectrum filtered. My bet is the color green is the color we would see which is what it is, GREEN.

 

[jamesduncan]

Noon Enceladus

Enceladus has attracted a lot of interest because it has an active pole that spews jets of material into outer space. During its last flyby over that pole, an instrument on board the Cassini spacecraft detected the presence of a biomarker—molecular hydrogen. This suggests that the ocean we know lies beneath the moon’s surface could indeed contain an ecosystem similar to the ones we find in deep-sea hydrothermal vents on Earth.

Hunter Waite, a researcher at the Southwestern Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, is the lead author of a paper describing the findings in an upcoming issue of Science. In the piece, the team explains that the molecular hydrogen (H2) content was measured using Cassini’s INMS instrument, a mass spectrometer capable of sniffing the molecular composition of gas that it captures.

A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.

Researchers found the magnitude of the moon's very slight wobble, as it orbits Saturn, can only be accounted for if its outer ice shell is not frozen solid to its interior, meaning a global ocean must be present.

The finding implies the fine spray of water vapor, icy particles and simple organic molecules Cassini has observed coming from fractures near the moon's south pole is being fed by this vast liquid water reservoir. The research is presented in a paper published online this week in the journal Icarus.

Astrophysicists working with NASA's Saturn sweeping Cassini spacecraft have just announced that Enceladus has a warm ocean at its southern pole with ongoing hydrothermal activity—the first ever discovered outside of Earth. This new research, published in the journal Nature, builds upon last year's discovery of the moon's 6-mile-deep ocean, which is also believed to contain many of the chemicals commonly associated with life.

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia19656_labeled.jpg

 

[Old Rocks]

And our solar system continues to get more interesting.

 

[fncceo]

The color cameras on Cassini are UV and spectrum filtered, those stripes aren't actually green. They are what are known to planetoligists as 'false-color mages'.

After thinking about your statement I disagree. Not only do the cameras use UV and spectrum filtering but they also pick up true color images as well. I doubt the photo color "green" is a byproduct of UV or spectrum filtered. My bet is the color green is the color we would see which is what it is, GREEN.

To be fair, if NASA and JPL had evidence, however circumstantial, of exobiology, it would literally be the story of the millennium.

Space scientists could get Billions in new funding to investigate life outside our planet.

I'm willing to accept the official story in this case that it's not easy being green.

 

[Old Rocks]

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. We do not yet have that. But the possibilities are definately looking up for an exobiology within our solar system.

 

[fncceo]

Proof of life beyond this planet will need to be more than photographic.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Life beyond Earth has finally been found; or so it seems
There is a moon circling Saturn that has a warm core, covered in ice and spewing geysers. With a green hew around the geyser points.


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Explanation: This cylindrical projection global map is one of six new color maps of Saturn's midsized icy moons, constructed using 10 years of image data from the Cassini spacecraft. Discovered by Cassini (the astronomer) in 1684, Dione is about 1,120 kilometers across. Based on data extending from infrared to ultraviolet, the full resolution of this latest space-age map is 250 meters per pixel. The remarkable brightness difference between the tidally locked moon's lighter leading hemisphere (right) and darker trailing hemisphere clearly stands out. Like other Saturn moons orbiting within the broad E-ring, Dione's leading hemisphere is kept shiny as it picks up a coating of the faint ring's icy material. The E-ring material is constantly replenished by geysers on moon Enceladus' south pole. Lighter, younger surface fractures also appear to cross the dark, cratered trailing hemisphere.

Cool. Looks like they discovered COPPER!

This is how you guys destroy science while claiming you worship science.

 

[Old Rocks]

Now I laughed when the loonies tried to present this as some alien construct. However, what the scientists are now looking at are possibilities, and judging which would be the most likely target for future exploration. If Musk is successful with his BFR, then this could happen within my lifetime.

 

[fncceo]

Now I laughed when the loonies tried to present this as some alien construct. However, what the scientists are now looking at are possibilities, and judging which would be the most likely target for future exploration. If Musk is successful with his BFR, then this could happen within my lifetime.

I'd hate to bust your space bubble, but Mr. Musk isn't going to Mars.

Neither he nor any consortium of private investors will be able to raise the Trillions of dollars such an effort would require.

And nations won't do it for the foreseeable future.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

The sun is to dim (1/100 earth's brightness) and it's too damn cold to support the chemical reactions necessary for life.

Please stop bastardizing science to create your alternate reality.

 

[Old Rocks]

The sun is to dim (1/100 earth's brightness) and it's too damn cold to support the chemical reactions necessary for life.

Please stop bastardizing science to create your alternate reality.

Rift zones.

 

[Old Rocks]

Now I laughed when the loonies tried to present this as some alien construct. However, what the scientists are now looking at are possibilities, and judging which would be the most likely target for future exploration. If Musk is successful with his BFR, then this could happen within my lifetime.

I'd hate to bust your space bubble, but Mr. Musk isn't going to Mars.

Neither he nor any consortium of private investors will be able to raise the Trillions of dollars such an effort would require.

And nations won't do it for the foreseeable future.

My grandfather was 20 years old when the Wright Bros. flew at Kitty Hawk. He watched the Eagle set down on the moon. Sputnik was launched in 1957, the Eagle landed in 1969.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

The sun is to dim (1/100 earth's brightness) and it's too damn cold to support the chemical reactions necessary for life.

Please stop bastardizing science to create your alternate reality.

Rift zones.

Copper.

The thread title is a lie based on hope