Beneath the most reflective surface in our solar system, the frozen white crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus hides a subsurface ocean that erupts through the crevasses in its icy crust.⁣ ⁣ A team of international scientists has discovered an essential ingredient for life as we know it – the element phosphorus – among the salt-rich grains ejected from Enceladus’ geysers, using data from our Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017. Phosphorous is a building block for DNA and a crucial part of energy-carrying molecules present in all life on Earth.⁣ ⁣ Image description: Our Cassini spacecraft captures this view of Enceladus in enhanced-color, showing its white surface marked with long cracks and crevasses, unveiling light blue highlights. Black space surrounds the Moon.⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute⁣ ⁣ #Space #SolarSystem #NASA #Cassini #Saturn #Ice #Ocean