{"id":5784,"date":"2023-07-24T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2023-07-24T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:25:07","slug":"key-building-block-of-life-detected-on-saturns-moon-enceladus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2023\/07\/24\/key-building-block-of-life-detected-on-saturns-moon-enceladus\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Building Block of Life Detected on Saturn\u2019s Moon Enceladus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An international team, including UW Astrobiology Postdoctoral researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/profile\/fabian-klenner\/\">Fabian Klenner<\/a>, discovered phosphorus in the form of phosphates on Saturn\u2019s icy moon Enceladus. Phosphates are vital for all life on Earth because they are part of cell membranes, DNA, and bones for example. Enceladus is now known to have all the ingredients for life as we know it. Their work has been published in Nature on June 14<sup>th<\/sup>, and is highlighted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/14\/science\/enceladus-phosphorus-life.html\">The New York Time<\/a><a>s<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2023\/phosphates-enceladus-life-saturn-moon\/\">GeekWire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/06\/14\/world\/enceladus-ocean-phosphorus-scn\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-05987-9\">see their publication here<\/a>&nbsp;and read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/14\/phosphate-a-key-building-block-of-life-found-on-saturns-moon-enceladus\/\">UW News Article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team, including UW Astrobiology Postdoctoral researcher Fabian Klenner, discovered phosphorus in the form of phosphates on Saturn\u2019s icy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[72,40,13,12,32,43,20,33],"tags":[281,134],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5787,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions\/5787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}