{"id":187049,"date":"2024-04-09T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/signs-of-life-would-be-detectable-in-single-ice-grain-emitted-from-extraterrestrial-moons"},"modified":"2024-04-09T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:23:05","slug":"signs-of-life-would-be-detectable-in-single-ice-grain-emitted-from-extraterrestrial-moons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/signs-of-life-would-be-detectable-in-single-ice-grain-emitted-from-extraterrestrial-moons","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Life would be Detectable in Single Ice Grain Emitted from Extraterrestrial Moons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/signs-of-life-would-be-detectable-in-single-ice-grain-emitted-from-extraterrestrial-moons3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could life be found in frozen sea spray from moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter? New research finds that life can be detected in a single ice grain containing one bacterial cell or portions of a cell. The results suggest that if life similar to that on Earth exists on these planetary bodies, that this life should be detectable by instruments launching in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The ice-encrusted oceans of some of the moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter are leading candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life. A new lab-based study led by the University of Washington in Seattle and the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin shows that individual ice grains ejected from these planetary bodies may contain enough material for instruments headed there in the fall to detect signs of life, if such life exists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time we have shown that even a tiny fraction of cellular material could be identified by a mass spectrometer onboard a spacecraft,\u201d said lead author Fabian Klenner, a UW postdoctoral researcher in Earth and space sciences. \u201cOur results give us more confidence that using upcoming instruments, we will be able to detect lifeforms similar to those on Earth, which we increasingly believe could be present on ocean-bearing moons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could life be found in frozen sea spray from moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter? New research finds that life can be detected in a single ice grain containing one bacterial cell or portions of a cell. The results suggest that if life similar to that on Earth exists on these planetary bodies, that this life [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}