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 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2025-01-01
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Series: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/adad65 |
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