"Detecting Extraterrestrial Life on Saturn's Moon Enceladus: Research Team's Approach"

Saturn's moon Enceladus has a liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust, making it a promising place to look for extraterrestrial life. Research has found key ingredients for life in its ocean, and a laboratory test has shown that spacecraft dust analyzer instruments could detect and identify traces of life in the emitted ice grains. Future missions from NASA and the European Space Agency are targeting Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa, with plans to use highly capable dust analyzers for ice grain analysis.