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Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus is able to support life − my research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells there


As a planetary scientist and astrobiologist who studies ice grains from Enceladus, I'm interested in whether there is life on this or other icy moons. I also want to understand how scientists like me could detect it.

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