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From the Ted Talk by Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life?

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And I also reported that we'd made this mind-blowing discovery — this once-in-a-lifetime dcsrveioy of towering jets erupting from those fractures at the south pole, consisting of tiny water ice casytrls accompanied by water vapor and simple oarnigc compounds like carbon dioxide and methane. And at that time two years ago I mentioned that we were speculating that these jets might in fact be gesreys, and erupting from pockets or chambers of lquiid water underneath the sfrauce, but we weren't really sure. However, the implications of those results — of a possible environment within this moon that could support prebiotic chemistry, and perhaps life itself — were so entxciig that, in the intervening two years, we have focused more on Enceladus.

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And I also reported that we'd made this mind-blowing discovery — this once-in-a-lifetime _________ of towering jets erupting from those fractures at the south pole, consisting of tiny water ice ________ accompanied by water vapor and simple _______ compounds like carbon dioxide and methane. And at that time two years ago I mentioned that we were speculating that these jets might in fact be _______, and erupting from pockets or chambers of ______ water underneath the _______, but we weren't really sure. However, the implications of those results — of a possible environment within this moon that could support prebiotic chemistry, and perhaps life itself — were so ________ that, in the intervening two years, we have focused more on Enceladus.

Solution

  1. discovery
  2. geysers
  3. organic
  4. crystals
  5. liquid
  6. surface
  7. exciting

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And I also reported that we'd made this mind-blowing discovery — this once-in-a-lifetime discovery of towering jets erupting from those fractures at the south pole, consisting of tiny water ice crystals accompanied by water vapor and simple organic compounds like carbon dioxide and methane. And at that time two years ago I mentioned that we were speculating that these jets might in fact be geysers, and erupting from pockets or chambers of liquid water underneath the surface, but we weren't really sure. However, the implications of those results — of a possible environment within this moon that could support prebiotic chemistry, and perhaps life itself — were so exciting that, in the intervening two years, we have focused more on Enceladus.

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Important Words

  1. accompanied
  2. carbon
  3. chambers
  4. chemistry
  5. compounds
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  30. prebiotic
  31. reported
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