A team led by Candice Hansen, NASA, reported that water vapor and ice particles erupting from the geysers of Saturn's moon Enceladus at supersonic speeds of more than 1,300 miles strongly suggest there is water under the icy surface
In addition, this is additional confirmation of the fact that there may be an underground ocean on the moon, and, therefore, there may be microbes there. “We believe that liquid water is essential for life. There is other evidence of the presence of water there,”K. Hansen said, adding that they cannot yet claim that life exists there. The data was obtained using Cassini, which flew over the surface of Enceladus in March. Scientists also reported that there are only three places in the solar system where there can be (or certainly is) liquid water near the surface - on Earth, on Jupiter's moon Europa and on Enceladus.
This summer, a team of scientists from the United States discovered evidence that the moon once had water, which contradicts some elements of the theory of the formation of a satellite of the Earth. However, as the research group of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) reported, the lunar apparatus "Kaguya", which explored the Shekelton crater, did not find ice in the crater expected by scientists. However, despite the disappointment from the study, scientists argue that the absence of ice in the crater does not indicate that there is no ice on the Moon, since the ice may be below the surface.