THINGS OF SATURN

Scientists set to hunt for aliens on icy moon

- BY DEAN MURRAY

SCIENTISTS are to send a spacecraft to hunt for aliens potentially hiding in our solar system.

The European Space Agency has announced a mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, as it has all the ingredients needed for lifeforms.

The agency set out the mission in its Voyage2050 long-term planning period announcement.

Enceladus is Saturn's sixth-largest moon, a 500 km-wide icy world famed for its south polar geysers spewing water plumes from a subsurface ocean.

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