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Macromolecular organic compound s from the depths of Enceladus

Postberg, Frank; Trieloff, Mario; Schmidt, Jürgen +18 more

Saturn's moon Enceladus harbours a global water ocean, which lies under an ice crust and above a rocky core. Through warm cracks in the crust a cryo-volcanic plume ejects ice grains and vapour into space that contain materials originating from the ocean. Hydrothermal activity is suspected to occur deep inside the porous core, powered by tidal diss…