https://www.space.com/41005-saturn-moon-enceladus-complex-organic-molecules.html
https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae306.cfm
Water boils under normal atmospheric pressure at 212°F (100°C). Imagine it at 221°F (105°C) but NOT boiling in a pressurized container. If the pressure is quickly reduced, the 221°F (105°C) water at normal pressure will now boil.
For another example, put water at room temperature into a vacuum chamber and begin removing the air. Eventually, the boiling temperature will fall below the water temperature and boiling will begin without heating.
Since Enceladus has been observed with plumes of water sublimating from its surface, based on the process of how water boils without the presence of heat, could the water near underneath of the ice shelf of Enceladus be boiling as a result of any oxygen being quickly released as the vacuum of space reduces the pressure being on any water near the blow holes of Enceladus?
If there is boiling water then perhaps there could be life under the ice shelf as well as within the ice shelf that would hunt and consume life living in the boiling cold around the blow holes.
https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae306.cfm
Water boils under normal atmospheric pressure at 212°F (100°C). Imagine it at 221°F (105°C) but NOT boiling in a pressurized container. If the pressure is quickly reduced, the 221°F (105°C) water at normal pressure will now boil.
For another example, put water at room temperature into a vacuum chamber and begin removing the air. Eventually, the boiling temperature will fall below the water temperature and boiling will begin without heating.
Since Enceladus has been observed with plumes of water sublimating from its surface, based on the process of how water boils without the presence of heat, could the water near underneath of the ice shelf of Enceladus be boiling as a result of any oxygen being quickly released as the vacuum of space reduces the pressure being on any water near the blow holes of Enceladus?
If there is boiling water then perhaps there could be life under the ice shelf as well as within the ice shelf that would hunt and consume life living in the boiling cold around the blow holes.
