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JWST spots biggest water plume yet spewing from a moon of Saturn

The huge watery cloud spurting from Enceladus could carry the ingredients for life farther into space than previously known.
  1. Alexandra Witze
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted Saturn’s moon Enceladus spraying out a huge plume of water vapour, much bigger than any previously seen there. This enormous cloud might contain the chemical ingredients of life, escaping from beneath the moon’s icy surface.

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Nature 618, 19 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01666-x

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