00:00What if alien life is hiding under the ice, on a moon of Saturn?
00:04Scientists may have just found the perfect place.
00:07NASA's Cassini mission has made a game-changing discovery on Enceladus,
00:11one of Saturn's icy moons.
00:13Heat is leaking from its north pole, and that's a big deal.
00:16It means the massive underground ocean might be far more stable than we thought.
00:21And where there's stable water, there might be life.
00:24Enceladus looks frozen and lifeless on the outside.
00:27But beneath its 201 degrees C crust lies a deep ocean.
00:31Heated by Saturn's gravity, the moon is stretching and squeezing constantly.
00:35This keeps the water from freezing and creates the perfect conditions for life to possibly evolve.
00:40Cassini's data shows that the heat energy going in matches what's coming out.
00:45That means the ocean isn't freezing or overheating. It's just right.
00:49The moon is also spewing water and organic materials from deep inside,
00:53the kind of stuff microbes love to use on Earth.
00:56So could alien life be swimming under the ice of Enceladus?
01:00We don't know yet, but the signs are more promising than ever.
01:03The next step? Maybe a mission to dive into that alien ocean.
01:07Conc Unexist headache.
01:08Or no, they won't be swimming under the ice of Enceladus,
01:09A scav overload.
01:10Dr Taafel.
01:11fucking
01:12o
01:22qualquer
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