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Photo of cracked gray-black sphere at bottom of image with small, elongated highlights of white in center of image against a black background
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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.

A single geyser erupts steam into the sky.
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Why Study Geysers?

by S. Hurwitz, M. Manga, K. A. Campbell, C. Muñoz-Saez and E. P. S. Eibl 30 July 202125 February 2022

Aside from captivating our senses, geysers have much to tell us about subsurface fluids, climate change effects, and the occurrence and limits of life on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.

Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park
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Are Geysers a Signal of Magma Intrusion Under Yellowstone?

by Erik Klemetti 29 May 202027 October 2021

Steamboat Geyser, the world’s tallest, is in the midst of one of its largest periods of activity. Is it linked to new magma intruding under the Yellowstone caldera?

Yellowstone-National-Park-beehive-geyser
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Can Carbon Dioxide Trigger Geyser Eruptions?

by JoAnna Wendel 16 March 20166 October 2022

Researchers looking at geyser discharge water in Yellowstone National Park found that dissolved carbon dioxide could be involved in a geyser's eruption.

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