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Low effective ultraviolet exposure ages for organics at the surface of Enceladus
Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 The saturnian moon Enceladus presents a remarkable opportunity in our solar system for searching for evidence of life, given its habitable ocean and plume that deposits organic-bearing ocean material onto the surface.
Amanda R. Hendrix, Christopher H. House
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Moonraker: Enceladus Multiple Flyby Mission
The Planetary Science Journal, 2022 Abstract Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, possesses an internal water ocean and jets expelling ocean material into space. Cassini investigations indicated that the subsurface ocean could be a habitable environment having a complex interaction with the rocky core.
O. Mousis +52 more
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A Common Origin for Ridge-and-Trough Terrain on Icy Satellites by Sluggish Lid Convection [PDF]
, 2015 Ridge-and-trough terrain is a common landform on outer Solar System icy satellites. Examples include Ganymede's grooved terrain, Europa's gray bands, Miranda's coronae, and several terrains on Enceladus.
Barr, Amy C., Hammond, Noah P.
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Surface ages of mid-size Saturnian satellites [PDF]
, 2015 The observations of the surfaces of the mid sized Saturnian satellites made by Cassini Huygens mission have shown a variety of features that allows study of the processes that took place and are taking place on those worlds.
Di Sisto, Romina P., Zanardi, Macarena
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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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Cassini ISS mutual event astrometry of the mid-sized Saturnian satellites 2005-2012 [PDF]
, 2014 Reproduced with permission from Astronomy & Astrophysics ...
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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 R. Glein, J. Hunter Waite
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Method for detecting and quantitating capture of organic molecules in hypervelocity impacts
MethodsX, 2021 Enceladus is a prime candidate in the solar system for in-depth astrobiological studies searching for habitability and life because it has a liquid water ocean with significant organic content and ongoing cryovolcanic activity. The presence of ice plumes
Bahar Kazemi +5 more
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Aggregate Particles in the Plumes of Enceladus [PDF]
, 2016 Estimates of the total particulate mass of the plumes of Enceladus are important to constrain theories of particle formation and transport at the surface and interior of the satellite.
Gao, Peter +3 more
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Geophysical tests for habitability in ice-covered ocean worlds [PDF]
, 2017 Geophysical measurements can reveal the structure of icy ocean worlds and cycling of volatiles. The associated density, temperature, sound speed, and electrical conductivity of such worlds thus characterizes their habitability. To explore the variability
Anderson +118 more
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