Oxygen envelops Saturn's icy moon

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Source: BBC

2 March 2012 Last updated at 12:14 GMT

Oxygen envelops Saturn's icy moon

By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News

A Nasa spacecraft has detected oxygen around one of Saturn's icy moons, Dione.

The discovery supports a theory that suggests all of the moons near Saturn and Jupiter might have oxygen around them.

Researchers say that their finding increases the likelihood of finding the ingredients for life on one of the moons orbiting gas giants.

The study has been published in Geophysical Research Letters.

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[Warpy]

1. I think microbial life, at least, might be one of the most common things in the universe

and likely exist on planets where it will be decreed impossible for any life to exist.