How the Cassini mission led a 'paradigm shift' in search for alien life
Sep 12, 2017
2 minutes
The hunt for habitable (and already inhabited) worlds has largely focused on a “Goldilocks zone” around a star, where it’s neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist. But astrobiologists have begun to broaden their search – thanks to discoveries by NASA’s Cassini orbiter.
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