Minutes-old organics in Enceladus plume reveal active ocean chemistry beneath the icy shell
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Nozair Khawaja of Freie Universität Berlin shows that ice grains freshly ejected from Enceladus’ subsurface ocean contain new and diverse organic compounds, revealing active chemistry beneath the icy shell and strengthening Enceladus as a promising site to study biology‑relevant chemistry.
