{"id":207045,"date":"2025-02-23T13:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/alien-ocean-could-hide-signs-of-life-from-spacecraft"},"modified":"2025-02-23T13:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T19:11:07","slug":"alien-ocean-could-hide-signs-of-life-from-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/alien-ocean-could-hide-signs-of-life-from-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"Alien Ocean could Hide Signs of Life from Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alien-ocean-could-hide-signs-of-life-from-spacecraft2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these extraterrestrial waters directly.<\/p>\n<p>A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn that sprays its ocean water into space through cracks in its icy surface, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect it.<\/p>\n<p>Published today (Thursday, 6 February 2025) in Communications Earth and Environment, the study shows how Enceladus\u2019s ocean forms distinct layers that dramatically slow the movement of material from the ocean floor to the surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these extraterrestrial waters directly. A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn that sprays its ocean water into space through cracks in its icy surface, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207045","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=207045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}