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(FILES)This Cassini spacecraft image released by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute shows icy geysers spewing from the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Huge geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus may be fed by a salty sea below its surface, boosting the odds of extraterrestrial life in our own Solar System, according to a study released on June 24, 2009. Researchers in Europe detected salt particles in the volcanic vapour-and-ice jets that shoot hundreds of kilometres (miles) into space, the strongest evidence to date of a liquid ocean under the moon's icy crust.Scientists already knew that tiny Enceladus, only 500 kilometers across, had two of the three essential ingredients for the emergence of life. AFP PHOTO/NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute =GETTY OUT=
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