Saturn's Moon Enceladus a Highlight of Cassini Mission
Tiny Enceladus May Hold Ingredients of Life | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference: "'So you've got subsurface liquid water, simple organics and water vapor welling up from below. Over time -- and Enceladus has been around 4.5 billion years, just like Earth and the rest of the solar system -- heating a cocktail of simple organics, water and nitrogen could form some of the most basic building blocks of life,' Brown said. 'Whether that's happened at Enceladus is not clear, but Enceladus, much like Jupiter's moon Europa and the planet Mars, now has to be a place where we eventually search for life.' "
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