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Artist's concept of Cassini's flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Image credit: NASA/JPL

NASA Studying Underwater Volcano To Know More About Alien Life

Sounds like the plot of a Hollywood film, right?

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Alien life.
An underwater volcano in Hawaii.

Sounds like the plot of a Hollywood film, right? Or maybe the next Dan Brown novel? However, this news is real and it’s very exciting. The space agency has launched a new project called Subsea which stands for Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog, reports NBC News.

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Lō‘ihi Seamount is an active volcano about 30 km (19 mi) off the shore of Hawai’i. Image credit: USGS.

And what’s the aim of the project? According to the news agency, it will be exploring the environmental conditions near about the Lō`ihi seamount because of the presence of an extensive network of hydrothermal vents in the area – this also makes it an extremely good region to study the interesting biodiversity.

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This view of Saturn’s moon Enceladus was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

However, that’s not all – the scientists at the space agency believe that the conditions near the Lō`ihi seamount mimic those of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons.

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