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NASA Study Reproduces Origins of Life on Ocean Floor
An image of Saturn's moon Enceladus backlit by the Sun, taken by the Cassini mission. The false color tail shows jets of icy particles and water that spray into space from an ocean that lies deep below the moon's icy surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Scientists have reproduced in the lab how the ingredients for life could have formed deep in the ocean 4 billion years ago. The results of the new study offer clues to how life started on Earth and where else in the cosmos we might find it.
From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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