Scientists wishing to Enceladus search for extraterrestrial life (Photos).

<P> Keywords: Enceladus, extraterrestrial life </ P> <P> <CENTER> </ CENTER> <P> </ P> <P> Enceladus scientists wishing to search for extraterrestrial life </ P> .<P> <CENTER> </ CENTER> <P> </ P> <P> 1981, the Voyager 2 spacecraft first flyby of Enceladus, Enceladus only shot the photos in some areas, and identify .was low. .Picture indicates that the flat region where the recent geological activity has occurred. .</ P> <P> <CENTER> </ CENTER> <P> </ P> <P> the size of Enceladus, Saturn's largest moon, only one-tenth of Titan. .Fast-day experience of such a small loss of internal heat. .In addition to outside Enceladus, the same size objects already in the geologically "dead." .What makes Enceladus is still "full of energy"? </ P> <P> <CENTER> </ CENTER> <P> </ P> <P> formed by the water vapor and ice particles from Enceladus Jet .Antarctic spewing out of the depths of the cracks, making Enceladus the Earth, Io, Triton tied into the solar system, only four have current geological activity of the celestial bodies. .This is the artist rendering of the manned exploration of the imagination painting Enceladus, see the size of the astronauts can see the size of objects in the painting. .</ P> <P> World Scientific reports [tech. /]: The original humble Enceladus, has become the eye of the star. .Cassini spacecraft sent back data suggest that the satellite under the Antarctic ice sheet, may have constituted a large ocean of liquid water. .Water gushing through cracks in the ice, forming a spectacular "Fountain" - also emitted, and organic compounds necessary for life. .Only 500 km wide crater of small satellites in the solar system would be home to do another life? </ P> <P> about 25 years ago, when Voyager 2 (Voyager 2) flying over the Saturn and its detectors .satellite systems, it from Enceladus, "Enceladus" (Enceladus) 90,000 km. .In only a few hours of skimming continuing process, the camera on the Voyager 2 sent back to Earth a few photos, but it is these few pictures that planetary scientists have puzzled for many years. .Even if there is no standard to speak of changing the satellite of Saturn, Enceladus is one of the most special one: the ice-covered surface and bright white, as if just been to snow. .In comparison, there is no atmosphere of Saturn's other satellites surface is covered with craters - the result of foreign object impact crater. .Enceladus has not scattered the vast plains of the crater, which clearly shows that the satellite has been driven by the internal forces of geological activity. .For just over 500 km diameter, Enceladus, for its own seems too small, and can not generate a lot of heat needed to geological activity. .To be sure, this satellite must be something unusual happens, or NEO impact traces left by how great it would suddenly disappear? </ P> <P> </ p>.