Enough Sulfur and Iron for Potential Life Make Enceladus’s Ocean Fully Habitable

The Cassini spacecraft revealed life-forming elements like CHNOP and diverse organic compounds from Enceladus’s ocean. However, the availability of minor but bio-essential nutrients such as iron and sulfur remains unknown. Here, we perform geochemical modeling to explore their chemistry in Enceladus...

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Main Authors: Weiming Xu, Can Liu, Ao Zhang, Maggie Lau, H. James Cleaves, Fang Huang, Christopher R. Glein, Jihua Hao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/adad65
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