In the new study, evidence for other sources of chemical energy, much stronger and more diverse than methane production, was discovered: a group of organic compounds was found that were oxidized, and this points to many chemical pathways for the existence of potential life in the subsurface ocean of Enceladus, because oxidation helps to release chemical energy
Scientists know that the huge plume of ice grains and water vapor ejected from Saturn's moon Enceladus is rich in organic compounds, some of which are important for sustaining life as we know it. Now the scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini mission are taking the proof of existence one step further: they have found strong confirmation of hydrogen cyanide, an important molecule in the origin of life.
The researchers also discovered evidence that the ocean, which hides beneath the moon's outer ice mantle and feeds the thymara, has a powerful source of chemical energy. The source of the energy, which has not been identified until now, is some organic compounds, some of which, on Earth, are used as fuel for organisms.
The findings, published on December 14 in Nature Astronomy, suggest that this small moon may have much more chemical energy than previously thought. The more energy there is, the more likely life can develop and exist.
"Our study provides further evidence that eucalypts contain some of the most important molecules for creating the building blocks of life and sustaining that life through metabolic reactions," said lead author Jonah Peter, a doctoral student at Harvard University who performed much of the research while working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "In addition to the fact that Enceladus meets the basic requirements of populations, we now have an idea of how complex biomolecules can form there, and what kind of chemical pathways can be involved."
"The discovery of hydrogen cyanide was particularly exciting, because it is the starting point for most theories about the origin of life," said Peter. Life as we know it requires building blocks, such as amino acids, and hydrogen cyanide is one of the most important and versatile molecules needed to create amino acids. Because its molecules can be stacked together in many different ways, the author of the study calls hydrogen cyanide the Swiss army knife of amino acid starters.
"As we tried to find flaws in our results by testing alternative models," Peter added, "the evidence grew stronger. In the end, it was clear that there was no way to fit the composition of the timara without including hydrogen cyanide."
In 2017, scientists found in Enceladus evidence of chemistry that could support life, if it existed, in its oceans. The combination of carbon dioxide, methane and hydrogen in Timra indicated methanogenesis, a metabolic process that produces methane. Methanogenesis is common on Earth, and may have played a critical role in the origin of life here.
In the new study, evidence for additional sources of chemical energy, much stronger and more diverse than methane production, was discovered: a group of organic compounds was found that were oxidized, and this points to many chemical pathways for the existence of potential life in the subsurface ocean of Enceladus, because oxidation helps to release chemical energy.
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Academics who were confused by the university establishment.
Up to the level where they can no longer distinguish between truth and lies.. The academy went bankrupt a long time ago
Saturn's moon Enceladus.
It has never been reached by a manned flight.
Fly home pissed off, let us go dumbass.
A person has two ways to explore physical reality, through words, and through actions.
The chapter of Genesis, which opens with the words "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" explores the appearance of physical reality, in the way of conversations.
It is impossible to investigate the appearance of physical reality by means of actions, because one knows that one cannot practically create physical reality.
Creating physical reality is divine.
Therefore, the verse "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" surely resides in the hearts of human beings.
After this verse came man, and he began to investigate the existing divine physical reality, on the way
of deeds.
Galileo and Kepler were the first to study the existing physical reality through actions.
Their research was successful and correct, and physical reality confirmed it.
Newton who followed them was a researcher of speech.
With talk he tried to create a new physical reality of gravity, and many people agreed with him.
300 years have passed, and the existing physical reality did not agree with him.
Cosmologists in the last 100 years are trying to create a new physical reality, of particulate matter, but the existing physical reality does not agree with them.
A. Asbar
Are you still here? Homemade chicken snooze.
Why all the comments here from delusional people
The Plonter of the Tower of Babel
Billions of words have been written by humans, and each word is a jumble of lines with a unique shape.
Billions of words have poured from the throats of men
And each word is a unique noise.
About 100 years ago, curious people appeared who wanted to investigate these chatter and these noises
in order to understand them.
What they understood, they wrote with the help of other gibberish, and told with the help of other noises.
The name of these curious people is linguists, and they did not understand that investigating gibberish with the help of other gibberish is doomed to failure,
This is the tower of Babel planter,
"Investigating nonsense with the help of other nonsense".
Neurolinguistics permitted the Tower of Babel planter with the help of actions, which brought natural knowledge to man.
A. Asbar
As my predecessors wrote here, indeed, we have not yet reached the moon and cannot reach it. The book of Genesis called the sky because it named water "the sky is a heaven for God and the earth he gave to men." There is a firmament above us that cannot be broken, a wise man with his eyes in his head to investigate and realize that everything is a lie and that the "moon landing" was filmed in a studio. Just like the twins were dropped by planes, (that's right, there were no planes) there was a controlled explosion to drop the twins on purpose by the US government. Investigate and understand... and it continues to the massacre perpetrated by Hamas and coordinated by the "Illuminati" government, traitors and traitors to us. Until God says to our troubles bye! And the spilled blood of his servants will rise again.
Nonsense without end!!!! They haven't reached the moon yet and they can't reach it, so Saturn or Mars!!??? We have already discovered the truth, enough with the nonsense, this is not journalism, this is confusion.
The Plonter of the Tower of Babel
Billions of words have been written by humans, and each word is a jumble of lines with a unique shape.
Billions of words have poured out of human throats, and each word is a unique noise.
About 100 years ago, curious humans appeared,
who wanted to investigate these chatter and these noises in order to understand them.
What they understood, they wrote with gibberish, and told with noises,
The name of these curious is linguists,
And they didn't understand that investigating nonsense with the help of other nonsense is predestined to failure,
This is the pillar of the Tower of Babel, which neurolinguistics cracked, with the help of actions in physical reality, and natural knowledge.
A. Asbar
Bullshit in literal juice
Haha what nonsense
How much energy is poured into a place that does not belong
God will protect us from the ignorance of the spirit and from foreign worship.
I wish the emptiness of the confused to be filled.
Shabbat Shalom my beloved brothers.
What bullshit who believes NASA's lies... These drugged people are just making all this up....
There is no contradiction between science and the Torah!
One clear word interpreted incorrectly will change your perception
Stop believing in God?
There is no contradiction between the Law of Moses and science.
A wise and enlightened Torah. Humans do not interpret correctly. Maybe King Solomon.
What has been is what will be and there is nothing new under the sun. There is one word written clearly and simply in Genesis that is misinterpreted. And she needs an interpretation
Land a spacecraft quickly on Saturn's moon
And the educated will warn like the brightness of the sky and the righteous of the many like the light of the stars. Come out and see who created all these who gives names to all the stars with the greatest of his power and know and return to your heart that it is the Lord God who created all these
NASA is a corrupt organization that was established in the first place to roll billions from public taxes. (because otherwise how will we steal money from people)
Everything they publish cannot be denied because we don't have access to space
And the funny part is
which they don't have either
It's all one big fake like the moon landing
I love you
What's more, they are good directors
But astronauts are not
What is chemical energy?
When the end of the sun comes and it boils the earth, a few more million years will pass until Saturn and its moons also boil...