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Review of Saturn’s icy moons following the Cassini mission
Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 We review our knowledge of the icy moons of Saturn prior to the Cassini orbital mission, describe the discoveries made by the instrumentation onboard the Cassini spacecraft.
Michele K Dougherty, Linda J Spilker
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Marine Science Can Contribute to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life [PDF]
LifeLife on our planet likely evolved in the ocean, and thus exo-oceans are key habitats to search for extraterrestrial life. We conducted a data-driven bibliographic survey on the astrobiology literature to identify emerging research trends with marine ...
Jacopo Aguzzi +14 more
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Ceres’ Broad‐Scale Surface Geomorphology Largely Due To Asymmetric Internal Convection
AGU Advances, 2022 While we now know much about the volatile‐rich world of Ceres from the Dawn mission, the deep interior remains something of an enigma, shrouded by a crust composed of water ice, carbonates, phyllosilicates, salts and clathrate hydrates.
Scott D. King +6 more
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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 archaeal class Halobacteria and astrobiology: Knowledge gaps and research opportunities
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Water bodies on Mars and the icy moons of the outer solar system are now recognized as likely being associated with high levels of salt. Therefore, the study of high salinity environments and their inhabitants has become increasingly relevant for ...
Jia-Hui Wu +8 more
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Energetic Constraints on Ocean Circulations of Icy Ocean Worlds
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 Globally ice-covered oceans have been found on multiple moons in the solar system and may also have been a feature of Earth’s past. However, relatively little is understood about the dynamics of these ice-covered oceans, which affect not only the ...
Malte F. Jansen +3 more
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IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2020 Data acquisition in planetary remote sensing missions is influenced by complex environmental resource- and instrument-specific constraints. This impedes to perform observations at any given time during the mission and with any of the instruments ...
Stefano Paterna +2 more
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A Recent Impact Origin of Saturn’s Rings and Mid-sized Moons
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We simulate the collision of precursor icy moons analogous to Dione and Rhea as a possible origin for Saturn’s remarkably young rings. Such an event could have been triggered a few hundred million years ago by resonant instabilities in a previous ...
L. F. A. Teodoro +7 more
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Plume Sample Modification at Icy Moons: Implications for Biosignatures
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2020 Water from the plumes of icy moons is a potential sampling target that may preserve the aqueous chemistry of the interior oceans, as well as organics and other biosignatures or prebiotic chemical precursors.
Matthew A. Pasek
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New Signatures of Bio-Molecular Complexity in the Hypervelocity Impact Ejecta of Icy Moon Analogues
Life, 2022 Impact delivery of prebiotic compounds to the early Earth from an impacting comet is considered to be one of the possible ways by which prebiotic molecules arrived on the Earth.
Surendra V. Singh +11 more
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