Delta Punch wrote:

NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The rare occurrence of liquid water so near the surface raises many new questions about the mysterious moon.

There are still many questions that enshroud this discovery. Although other moons in our solar system contain icy crusts, the real discovery here is that liquid water is apparently just below the surface of the moon. Scientists will now beginning exploring the possibility that lifeforms could have existed at one point in this environment...

I'd really wish NASA would qualify "so near the surface." Earth has volcanic eruptions that push magma miles below the Earth to its surface. Is this "so near the surface" measured in miles (or the SI correct Km for that matter)? How different is this from suspected icy oceans of Europa?

This is kind of a cool exogenesis avenue as well. Maybe life on Earth came from Enceladus "erupting" all over us.

RE: NASA - NASA's Cassini Discovers Potential Liquid Water on Enceladus