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Left: Depiction of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn visited by the Cassini mission, which discovered plumes emerging through cracks in the south polar ice possibly indicating oceanic hydrothermal activity. Right: silica nodules discovered at Columbia Hills on Mars by the Spirit rover consistent with an ancient hydrothermal environment (credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech).
