Wanying Kang

Water salinity drives Enceladus's ocean currents. When salt concentration is very low or very high, circulation speeds up, carrying heat to the poles and thinning the ice. This finding narrows down the ocean's possible properties and brings us closer to finding life.

On Saturn's moon Enceladus, scientists search for signs of life in the subsurface ocean. Non-living processes create similar signatures. Researchers developed a method to estimate the non-biological background and showed: without precise geophysical data, distinguishing living from non-living is imp