Europa/Enceladus ocean worlds

Layer 3 — Biologyin the astrobiology subtree

Icy-shell moons with sub-surface liquid-water oceans inferred from induced magnetic fields (Europa) and active plumes (Enceladus). Putatively habitable if hydrothermal chemistry adds reducing equivalents beneath the ice.

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