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Aperiodic reminder that Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus has a subsurface liquid water ocean that it's blasting into space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

Including complex organic chemicals! One day we might find life there

Tidal heating from Saturn's gravity as a heat source?

Ah I see it's covered in your study. Fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

I think these locales are not promising for life, at least not today. And Enceladus is *so* small, even the modern chemical reactions taking place there have a big hill to climb to support abiogenesis, much less sustain it.