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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 Carbonate Geochemistry of Enceladus' Ocean
Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 The plume composition at Enceladus contains clues about conditions and processes in the interior. We present new geochemical interpretations of Cassini mass spectrometry data from the plume gas and salt‐rich ice grains.
Christopher Glein, J Hunter Waite, Jr
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Returning Samples From Enceladus for Life Detection [PDF]
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2020 Evidence suggests that Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has a subsurface ocean that sources plumes of water vapor and ice vented to space from its south pole.
Marc Neveu +11 more
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Biological methane production under putative Enceladus-like conditions
Nature Communications, 2018 Many methanogenic archaea use H2 and CO2 to produce methane. Here, Taubner et al. show that Methanothermococcus okinawensis produces methane under conditions extrapolated for Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, and estimate that serpentinization may produce ...
Ruth-Sophie Taubner +2 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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Enceladus's internal ocean and ice shell constrained from Cassini gravity, shape, and libration data
Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 The intense plume activity at the South Pole of Enceladus together with the recent detection of libration hints at an internal water ocean underneath the outer ice shell.
Ondřej P Čadek +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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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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