Alien discovery is ‘very close’ and this is where to find it

Alien discovery is ‘very close’ and this is where to find it - expert says

MARS has had its day for alien life and one expert says humans will have to travel to the far reaches of the solar system to find any extraterrestrial activity, but the discovery is “very close”

By SEAN MARTIN

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NASA and other space agencies are scouring the Red Planet in search of alien microbial life, but one expert believes Earth’s next door neighbour is not the place to be looking. Dr Sheila Kanani, education, diversion and outreach officer at the Royal Astronomical Society, has said that space agencies should be travelling to one of Saturn’s moons in the hopes of finding life. The Cassini mission, which travelled through the hydrothermal plumes of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s 62 known moons, revealed in 2016 that it could home the building blocks for life.

"It has carbon, ammonia, sulphur, and all the ideas behind extremophiles on Earth – there are some that live on the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean which eat the sulphur from the hydrothermal vents on Earth.

“And we think the same processes are happening on Enceladus – plus it is a closed system.

Alien discovery is ‘very close’ and this is where to find it - expert says (Image: GETTY)

Enceladus is covered in a thick layer of ice (Image: GETTY)

“It is covered in ice so if there was anything living it might not have been effected by anything else happening in the solar system. I would bet money on Enceladus, but that’s my opinion.

“If Anything, Mars has had its day. Perhaps something happened on Mars before and we are just too late to see it.”

However, Dr Kanani has said there are major obstacles to overcome in finding extraterrestrial life forms, mainly funding.

She continued: “All we need to do is send a craft to Enceladus, drill through the ice and float around in the ocean.

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