Looking Up - 17 March 2017

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Could Saturn's second moon harbour life? The Cassini spacecraft has detected that the ocean beneath Enceladus's icy crust is closer to the surface at the pole than previously thought, meaning that a future mission could probe this more directly and possibly find evidence for life forms.
17 Mar 2017 English South Africa Places & Travel

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