All scientist's and most people on this planet have been curious, if not obsessed with the search for life in outer space.  Always the questions of are we alone?, is their life out there?, how did we begin? is  bantered back and forth from elementary school and throughout our lives.  Mars has usually taken the front page of this question.  With the ice sheets and the patterns along the surface that look like rivers, we have looked first to Mars to solve the problem.

But now we have a new source of the discovery of life! During a fly-over by N.A.S.A.'s Cassini last July and August tremendous discoveries and new mysteries appeared.  On Saturn swirls on the poles were viewed along with several other mysteries.  I will do further research and a seperate article on this.  What kept Cassini going long past the mission date is the discoveries of geysers on Saturn's seventh moon Enceladus.  The imaging center Space Science Institute located in Boulder Colorado found several jet locations on the moon.  Along with the geysers some organic material was recently discovered on this moon as well.  This material could easily help scientists decode some of the building blocks of life.  Without having to try to gain this information from dead material from Mars or an asteroid (which some theorize some may contain these blocks) we can try to obtain samples from a set place.  The best part is that this material is alive!  These jet resources may show scientists that there is water reserves buried beneath the surface of Enceladus.  Here are some wonderful pictures from N.A.S.A. and the Space Science Institute.  Enjoy!

 This is something that we will all keep a sharp eye out on, with much more to write about!

Here are the offical sites for the Cassini mission.  Please check these sites out for the most recent and in-depth mission profiles and pictures.

http://www.ciclops.org/index.php  This is the official imaging site for Cassini.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm  This is the official N.A.S.A. site for the Cassini mission.