NASA Just Confirmed: All Life Elements Found on Saturn's Moon Enceladus

NASA has made a stunning discovery on the icy moon of Saturn, Enceladus. From the Cassini data, they have discovered that the moon is spewing out phosphorus, one of the key chemical elements required for the existence of life. And possibly, the phosphorus concentration in the subsurface oceans of Enceladus is hundreds of times higher than in Earth’s oceans. With this, all the major chemical elements required for claiming habitability have now been found on the moon. This discovery has made Enceladus the most promising place where life could exist in the solar system beyond Earth.

So, how did NASA make this exciting discovery? Why is phosphorus considered to be a key ingredient of life? Finally, and most importantly, how will this discovery impact our course of future missions to Saturn?

The 67th episode of the Sunday Discovery Series answers all these questions in detail.

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Created By: Rishabh Nakra
Written & Researched By: Simran Buttar
Narrated By: Brian Pederson

Video Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
1:13 Spotlight
3:43 A Promise of Chemistry
6:35 Enceladus is Alive!

[jonschaad]

Incredible. We live in a wonderful universe; this genuinely blows me away.

[runnergo]

The most mind blowing thing is if we find life there and it's not even DNA-based like on Earth.

[irene_renaissance]

May be one day when Earth will be breathing its last, Enceladus will see its first lifeforms.Few billion years are nothing but years on the cosmic scale. 🤞✨❤️

[nickspanlopis]

The problem that everybody seems to forget is that even if life is common...multicellular life might be quite rare. It took...and I am saying this off of my terrible memory...but multicellular life only occured in the last 600 million years. For the majority of time life has been on Earth...it has been single celled.

[prakashkalgi]

Love your content bro❤❤
Keep making content and never get demotivated by haters (if any)❤❤

[Fei_PL]

I would say that life is very common thing in almost any enviroment because true nature of life is that life is just another "form" or rather "state" or "manifestation" of energy. It's just my theory and I can't prove it.

[johnishikawa]

If it is discovered that life found a way somewhere other than earth in our own solar system, then that would be proof that life abounds throughout the milky way galaxy, given the hundreds of billions of stars that it contains, and therefore upwards of a trillion planets to go with those stars .

[Kent]

If the building blocks of life are here, they're everywhere.

[Mossy-Rock]

Awesome information, and I think if we're going to find life anywhere in our solar system, Enceladus is the place to start. However, the "It's alive!" clickbait is NOT welcome. Stop it! "It's alive!" gives the impression that something is alive there, something we obviously don't know.

[jorispattyn]

I think it would be a good idea that, every time the sentence "necessary for life" is uttered, it would be followed by definition by "as we know it", no?

[edufau]

I agree with the cautious comments that reduce the euphoria: finding essential molecules for life as we know it on Earth does not mean finding life forms... not even single-celled forms. The distance between the molecules that make up the amino acids or the nucleic acid chains and the simplest and most primitive bacterium implies a QUANTUM LEAP. The natural synthesis of amino acids and other organic compounds is not something new and Miller & Urey already demonstrated in 1953 that it was even possible to reproduce it under controlled conditions in a laboratory.

[jaynorris]

Beyond earth, so far. There are too many other planets and moons out there to say this rock is the only one with life on it.

[KremitDeFrog]

so does that mean we'll have a sequel film titled "The Enceladus Report"?

[danielosko]

Why did it take NASA up to 19 years to disclose

[panavgaming]

Wow in are solar system and we looked so so far away

[JoeyBlogs]

Set up a nuclear power station there to create a habitable melt zone for a space base.

[Quickened]

Just wonder if we have to worry about mercury in the fish there, Or, are we good to go?

[Stogger]

Can’t wait when we finally discover or mainly accept that we are not the only “intelligent” life in our tiny universe.

[richardmercer]

Did he say "ice cream"?! Sign me up! Ohhhh, it's "ice grains"... glad they show the actual text!

[birdthompson]

if there is life there it is highly probable it is very small & not very intelligent...but you never know...