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The detection of silicon-rich particles originating from Saturn's moon Enceladus suggests that water–rock interactions are currently occurring inside it — the first evidence of ongoing hydrothermal activity beyond Earth. See Letter p.207

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Figure 1: The Lost City hydrothermal field under the mid-Atlantic Ocean.

IFE, URI-IAO, UW, Lost City Science Party; NOAA/OAR/OER; Lost City 2005 Exp./CC BY 2.0

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  1. Gabriel Tobie is at the Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique, Université de Nantes, CNRS, UMR-6112, Nantes, France.,

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Tobie, G. Enceladus' hot springs. Nature 519, 162–163 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/519162a

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