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Originally Posted by dmill1220  Hi Folks,
I find this Puzzling that no Oxygen has been detected?
You cannot make water without oxygen!
To my knowledge its 2 parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, so if its water that they see what happened to all of the oxygen?
even if its locked in the water their should still be some Oxygen Around that made the water in the first place, or am I way off track here?
Dennis  |
From what I have read, oxygen has been detected before. Quote:
In July 2005, Cassini cruised only 175 kilometers (109 miles) from Enceladus. The spacecraft’s instruments revealed that the large dark cracks, dubbed “tiger stripes,” on the moon’s south pole were warm and spewing out water vapor and ice particles.
The flyby occurred just when a star was moving behind the moon’s southern pole. “As we watched the moon extinguish the light from the star, the spectrometer identified oxygen,” says Esposito. “The starlight showed water molecules between us — the spacecraft — and the star. It showed a localized cloud of water near Enceladus.”
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