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A children's book on this subject
April 21, 2008 by Fred Bortz, 1 year 30 weeks ago
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The question is much broader than Enceladus. Several moons of Jupiter, most notably Europa, have underground oceans.
Likewise, the same may be true of Saturn's Titan, which also could conceivably harbor surface life based on methane, ethane, and ammonia and adapted to very low temperatures compared to Earth life.
I decided not to include Enceladus as too much of a long shot when writing a recent children's book called
Astrobiology in the "Cool Science" series for middle grades. If I had the more recent data, it might have persuaded me to include it as a sidebar at least.
Fred Bortz -- Science and technology books for young readers (www.fredbortz.com) and Science book reviews (www.scienceshelf.com)