{"id":324903,"date":"2025-11-29T04:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=5c224291033e3d804a38a16a0bfb18e5"},"modified":"2025-11-29T04:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:11:02","slug":"newly-found-organics-in-enceladus-plumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=324903","title":{"rendered":"Newly Found Organics in Enceladus\u2019 Plumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pia11688orig.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1580\" height=\"977\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pia11688orig.jpg?w=1580\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A black and white image of Enceladus&#039; south pole. Several plumes of water ice spray up from the curved surface; they are visible as misty white spikes. Most of the south pole is dark, but a small sliver is lit up at bottom left.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pia11688orig.jpg 1580w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pia11688orig.jpg?resize=300,186 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pia11688orig.jpg?resize=768,475 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pia11688orig.jpg?resize=1024,633 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pia11688orig.jpg?resize=1536,950 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pia11688orig.jpg?resize=400,247 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pia11688orig.jpg?resize=600,371 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pia11688orig.jpg?resize=900,557 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pia11688orig.jpg?resize=1200,742 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1580px) 100vw, 1580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Space Science Institute<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<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\">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\/\">Learn more about what they discovered.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Space Science Institute<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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 NASA\u2019s Cassini mission and found evidence of previously undetected organic compounds in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18818,16727],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enceladus","category-saturn-moons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326533,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324903\/revisions\/326533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}