{"id":288689,"date":"2025-11-28T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288689\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:58:08","slug":"newly-found-organics-in-enceladus-plumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288689\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Found Organics in Enceladus\u2019 Plumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed tiger stripes near the south pole of Saturn\u2019s moon Enceladus in this image released on Feb. 23, 2010. A study published in October 2025 analyzed data from <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/cassini\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Cassini mission<\/a> and found evidence of previously undetected organic compounds in a plume of ice particles\u00a0like the ones seen here. The ice particles were ejected from the ocean that lies under Enceladus\u2019 frozen shell. Researchers spotted not only molecules they\u2019ve found before but also new ones that lay a potential path to chemical or biochemical activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/cassini\/nasa-cassini-study-finds-organics-fresh-from-ocean-of-enceladus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about what they discovered.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Space Science Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed tiger stripes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[68028,71452,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-288689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-enceladus","9":"tag-saturn-moons","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}