Using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a research team led by University of Heidelberg scientists Frank Postberg and Nozair Khawaja found that complex, carbon-rich molecules with molecular masses above 200 atomic mass units are ejected from cracks in the surface of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. This artist’s painting of the south polar region of Enceladus shows massive jets of water ice being blasted into space. Image credit: Karl Kofoed...
