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Images: Organic material found in Saturn moon geyser

March 27, 2008 12:09 PM PDT

The graph shows the chemical constituents in percentage of abundance found in comets compared with those found in Enceladus' plume.

A much higher density of volatile gases, water vapor, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and organic materials than expected was detected by the Cassini spacecraft.

Photo by NASA/JPL/SwR

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