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ENCELADUS GEODETIC FRAMEWORK [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017 The small (approximately 500 km in diameter) satellite Enceladus is moving near the equatorial plane and deep in the gravity field of its parent planet Saturn.
J. Oberst +7 more
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The Fall of a Giant. Chemical evolution of Enceladus, alias the Gaia Sausage [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2019 We present the first chemical evolution model for Enceladus, alias the Gaia Sausage, to investigate the star formation history of one of the most massive satellites accreted by the Milky Way during a major merger event.
Fiorenzo Vincenzo +2 more
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A Review on Hypothesized Metabolic Pathways on Europa and Enceladus: Space-Flight Detection Considerations [PDF]
Life, 2023 Enceladus and Europa, icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter, respectively, are believed to be habitable with liquid water oceans and therefore are of interest for future life detection missions and mission concepts. With the limited data from missions to these
Jessica M. Weber +5 more
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The Astrophysical JournalEnceladus exhibits some remarkable phenomena, including water geysers spraying through surface cracks, a global ice shell that is librating atop an ocean, a large luminosity, and rapid outward orbital migration.
Peter Goldreich +2 more
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Cassini detection of Enceladus' cold water‐group plume ionosphere [PDF]
Geophysical Research Letters, 2009 This study reports direct detection by the Cassini plasma spectrometer of freshly-produced water-group ions (O+, OH+, H2O+, H3O+) and heavier water dimer ions (HxO(2))(+) very close to Enceladus where the plasma begins to emerge from the plume.
D T Young, C S Paty
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Librational response of Enceladus [PDF]
Geophysical Research Letters, 2010 Physical librations could significantly contribute to Enceladus' geophysics through their influence on tidal stress. Therefore it is important to determine their behavior and the present paper is devoted to estimating Enceladus' libration in longitude. In a rotational model of Enceladus with no global ocean, we introduce the main perturbative terms of ...
Rambaux, Nicolas +3 more
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Variations in plume activity reveal the dynamics of water-filled faults on Enceladus [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAfter discovering a jet activity near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, the Cassini mission demonstrated the existence of a subsurface water ocean with a unique sampling opportunity through flybys.
Ondřej Souček +4 more
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Detection of phosphates originating from Enceladus’s ocean [PDF]
Nature, 2023 Frank Postberg +2 more
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A multi-lander New Frontiers mission concept study for Enceladus: SILENUS
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 Enceladus, with its subsurface ocean, is amongst the top priority targets in the search for life beyond Earth. Following on discoveries from the Cassini mission that Enceladus possesses a global subsurface ocean containing salt and organic compounds ...
Erica Nathan +11 more
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The ETNA mission concept: Assessing the habitability of an active ocean world
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 Enceladus is an icy world with potentially habitable conditions, as suggested by the coincident presence of a subsurface ocean, an active energy source due to water-rock interactions, and the basic chemical ingredients necessary for terrestrial life ...
Ariel N. Deutsch +16 more
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