Amino Acids Found on Moon of Saturn

NASA has officially found the ingredients for amino acids on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. These building blocks for life are giving scientists new reasons to believe that we may be encountering extraterrestrial life sometime in the future.

Two years after the end of the 2017 Cassini mission, labs are still inspecting the samples that were analyzed before the spacecraft crashed into Enceladus’s crust.

Scientists are beginning to wonder if amino acids are even required for life outside of Earth but consider discovering them on this new moon to be an important function of finding that out.

Enceladus has hydrothermal vents in its oceans that support a possible theory for sustainable life on the moon. According to Nasa.gov, they consider the components found on this mission to be the precursors for amino acids,

Scientists consider this discovery to be a green light in their search for another habitable world.