Exploring the composition of Europa with the upcoming Europa Clipper mission

TM Becker, MY Zolotov, MS Gudipati… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, harbors a subsurface liquid water ocean; the prospect of this
ocean being habitable motivates further exploration of the moon with the upcoming NASA …

Ice-ocean exchange processes in the Jovian and Saturnian satellites

KM Soderlund, K Kalousová, JJ Buffo, CR Glein… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
A growing number of satellites in the outer solar system likely have global oceans beneath
their outer icy shells. While the presence of liquid water makes these ocean worlds …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of phosphates originating from Enceladus's ocean

F Postberg, Y Sekine, F Klenner, CR Glein, Z Zou… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Saturn's moon Enceladus harbours a global 1 ice-covered water ocean 2, 3. The Cassini
spacecraft investigated the composition of the ocean by analysis of material ejected into …

Macromolecular organic compounds from the depths of Enceladus

F Postberg, N Khawaja, B Abel, G Choblet, CR Glein… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Saturn's moon Enceladus harbours a global water ocean 1, which lies under an ice crust
and above a rocky core 2. Through warm cracks in the crust 3 a cryo-volcanic plume ejects …

Powering prolonged hydrothermal activity inside Enceladus

G Choblet, G Tobie, C Sotin, M Běhounková… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Geophysical data from the Cassini spacecraft imply the presence of a global ocean
underneath the ice shell of Enceladus, only a few kilometres below the surface in the South …

A salt-water reservoir as the source of a compositionally stratified plume on Enceladus

F Postberg, J Schmidt, J Hillier, S Kempf, R Srama - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The discovery of a plume of water vapour and ice particles emerging from warm fractures
('tiger stripes') in Saturn's small, icy moon Enceladus,,,,, raised the question of whether the …

Sodium salts in E-ring ice grains from an ocean below the surface of Enceladus

F Postberg, S Kempf, J Schmidt, N Brilliantov… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Saturn's moon Enceladus emits plumes of water vapour and ice particles from fractures near
its south pole,,,,, suggesting the possibility of a subsurface ocean,,. These plume particles …

The pH of Enceladus' ocean

CR Glein, JA Baross, JH Waite Jr - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
Saturn's moon, Enceladus, is a geologically active waterworld. The prevailing paradigm is
that there is a subsurface ocean that erupts to the surface, which leads to the formation of a …

Low-mass nitrogen-, oxygen-bearing, and aromatic compounds in Enceladean ice grains

N Khawaja, F Postberg, J Hillier… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Saturn's moon Enceladus is erupting a plume of gas and ice grains from its south pole.
Linked directly to the moon's subsurface global ocean, plume material travels through cracks …

Detection of intact amino acids with a hypervelocity ice grain impact mass spectrometer

SE Burke, ZA Auvil, KA Hanold… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Astrobiology studies are a top priority in answering one of the most fundamental questions in
planetary science: Is there life beyond Earth? Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is a prime target …