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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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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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Ocean Dynamics of Outer Solar System Satellites
Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 Ocean worlds are prevalent in the solar system. Focusing on Enceladus, Titan, Europa, and Ganymede, I use rotating convection theory and numerical simulations to predict ocean currents and the potential for ice‐ocean coupling.
Krista M. Soderlund
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From early Earth to Enceladus—mineral electrochemistry could drive organic synthesis [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsHydrothermal systems in the ocean can behave like fuel cells when minerals connect reduced vent fluids to oxidized seawater, sustaining electrical potentials that drive reactivity.
Seneca J. Velling
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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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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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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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Astrobiology eXploration at Enceladus (AXE): A New Frontiers Mission Concept Study
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 The Saturnian moon Enceladus presents a unique opportunity to sample the contents of a subsurface liquid water ocean in situ via the continuous plume formed over its south polar terrain using a multi-flyby mission architecture.
K. Marshall Seaton +19 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Lake Untersee located in Eastern Antarctica, is a perennially ice-covered lake. At the bottom of its southern basin lies 20 m of anoxic, methane rich, stratified water, making it a good analog for Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.
Nicole Yasmin Wagner +3 more
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