As it is only 310 miles in diameter and around 4% the mass of our Earth, the gravity there is awful and it averages -198C and is covered in snow several hundred meters thick so not somewhere we could go and live but Scientists are starting to think that something may have beaten us to it anyway because carbon-based substances are being spewed out in those plumes.
The spacecraft Cassini discovered that Enceleadus is teeming with all the Biological raw ingredients needed for life but we are yet to discover if they combined in such a way to start life although it does have hydrothermal vents in its deep, saltwater oceans and that is exactly were we began our long journey billions of years ago from microbial life to me sitting here typing out a blog post about how we came from microbial life billions of years ago.
The Cassini mission ended it's 800 million mile trip in 2017 and scientists have been poring over the data it collected ever since and it may not be little green men waving probes and telling us they come in peace but if we discover that life began elsewhere, and it really is just a matter of time until we do, that would be one of the greatest discoveries of mankind, unless they arrive with massive ray guns and obliterate us in which case, not so much.
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