Isabel Swafford, Author at Eos

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Mission Could Lasso Amino Acids from the Icy Plumes of Enceladus

by Isabel Swafford 13 December 202213 December 2022

If geysers from Saturn’s moon Enceladus contain amino acids, new research shows that a spacecraft could collect them with signatures of possible life preserved.

Isabel Swafford

Mission Could Lasso Amino Acids from the Icy Plumes of Enceladus

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