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New Studies Show Enceladus’ Plume Ice Can Concentrate Ocean Chemistry and Support Microbial Metabolism

Two Science Advances papers link slow freezing and fragmentation of plume droplets to grain-by-grain chemical sorting and show a terrestrial methanogen can grow in an Enceladus-like seawater simulant, a finding that raises the odds of finding concentrated biosignatures.

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