Some of the major discoveries of the recent Cassini-Huygens mission have put Titan and Enceladus firmly on the Solar System map. The mission has revolutionised our view of Solar System […]
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Abundance of Gases in Enceladus's Ocean Are A Potential Fuel For Life
The subsurface ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus probably has higher than previously known concentrations of carbon dioxide and hydrogen and a more Earthlike pH level, possibly providing conditions favorable to […]
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Enceladus's Crust As A Non-uniform Thin Shell: II Tidal Dissipation
Tidal heating is the prime suspect behind Enceladus’s south polar heating anomaly and global subsurface ocean. No model of internal tidal dissipation, however, can explain at the same time the […]
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Evidence of Complex Organic Molecules In Plumes From Enceladus
Using mass spectrometry data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists found that large, carbon-rich organic molecules are ejected from cracks in the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Southwest Research Institute […]
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Surface Deposition of the Enceladus Plume and the Angle of Emissions
Since the discovery of an ice-particle plume erupting from the south polar terrain on Saturn’s moon Enceladus (Porco et al., 2006; Spahn et al., 2006; Spencer et al., 2006), the […]
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Tidal Friction Could Power Enceladus' Ocean For Billions Of Years
Enough heat to power hydrothermal activity inside Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus for billions of years could be generated through tidal friction if the moon has a highly porous core, a […]
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An Instrument to Study the Plumes of Enceladus
NASA scientists and engineers have conceived and plan to build an ambitious submillimeter-wave or radio instrument to study the composition of geysers spewing water vapor and icy particles from the […]
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Ground-based Detection of a Cloud of Methanol from Enceladus: When is a Biomarker Not a Biomarker?
Saturn’s moon Enceladus has vents emerging from a sub-surface ocean, offering unique probes into the liquid environment. These vents drain into the larger neutral torus in orbit around Saturn. We […]
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Webb Telescope Will Study Our Solar System's Ocean Worlds
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will use its infrared capabilities to study the “ocean worlds” of Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, adding to observations previously made by NASA’s […]
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A Novel Strategy to Seek Bio-signatures at Enceladus and Europa
A laboratory experiment is suggested in which conditions similar to those in the plume ejecta from Enceladus and, perhaps, Europa are established. Using infrared spectroscopy and polarimetry, the experiment might […]