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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>NASA announced on Thursday that they have found a \u201clife-sparking energy source\u201d at one of Saturn\u2019s moons. The US space agency stressed that its Cassini mission has focused on Enceladus, Saturn\u2019s icy moon, and discovered the existence of hydrogen cyanide, which they call \u201ca molecule that is key to the origin of life.
\n\u201cThe researchers also uncovered evidence that the ocean, which is hiding below the moon\u2019s icy outer shell and supplies the plume, holds a powerful source of chemical energy,\u201d NASA said on its website.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnidentified until now, the energy source is in the form of several organic compounds, some of which, on Earth, serve as fuel for organisms,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n

Pointing to the possibility of coming across \u201cmuch more energy inside this tiny moon than previously thought,\u201d NASA said: \u201cThe more energy available, the more likely that life might proliferate and be sustained.
\n\u201cIn 2017, scientists found evidence at Enceladus of chemistry that could help sustain life, if present, in its ocean,\u201d it recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe combination of carbon dioxide, methane, and hydrogen in the plume was suggestive of methanogenesis, a metabolic process that produces methane. Methanogenesis is widespread on Earth, and may have been critical to the origin of life on our planet,\u201d NASA further said.<\/p>\n

In addition to what has been figured out in 2017, NASA said that the latest discovery \u201cuncovers evidence for additional energy chemical sources far more powerful and diverse than the making of methane: The authors found an array of organic compounds that were oxidized, indicating to scientists that there are many chemical pathways to potentially sustain life in Enceladus\u2019 subsurface ocean.<\/p>\n

\u201d The agency also underlined scientists are \u201cstill a long way from answering\u201d whether life could originate on Enceladus. However, it added, the new work lays out chemical pathways for life that could be tested in the lab.<\/p>\n

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