Signs of life potentially detectable in single ice grain emitted from extraterrestrial moons

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Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A new lab-based study shows that individual ice grains ejected from the moons of Saturn and Jupiter may potentially contain enough material for instruments headed there in the fall to detect signs of life, if such life exists.

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