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Saturn's Enceladus Found to Contain All Ingredients for Life

  • NASA discovered phosphorus, a key ingredient for life, in Enceladus's subsurface ocean.
  • Enceladus is the only known world beyond Earth with the six chemical elements necessary for life.
  • The phosphorus discovery makes Enceladus potentially habitable and expands the possibility of life in the universe.
  • NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected phosphorus in icy particles erupting from Enceladus's subsurface ocean into space.
  • Future NASA missions aim to determine if life exists in Enceladus's ocean and understand the potential for life on other icy worlds.
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