ArticleAstrobiology2017
Could It Be Snowing Microbes on Enceladus? Assessing Conditions in Its Plume and Implications for Future Missions.
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- The Photochemistry of Amino Acids Produced on the Polar Cryovolcanic Regions of Titan.ACS earth & space chemistry · 2025Article
- How to identify cell material in a single ice grain emitted from Enceladus or Europa.Science advances · 2024Article
- A Review on Hypothesized Metabolic Pathways on Europa and Enceladus: Space-Flight Detection Considerations.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Hydrothermal Processing of Microorganisms: Mass Spectral Signals of Degraded Biosignatures for Life Detection on Icy Moons.ACS earth & space chemistry · 2022Article
- Science Objectives for Flagship-Class Mission Concepts for the Search for Evidence of Life at Enceladus.Astrobiology · 2022Article
- Enceladus as a Potential Niche for Methanogens and Estimation of Its Biomass.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Quantitative evaluation of the feasibility of sampling the ice plumes at Enceladus for biomarkers of extraterrestrial life.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Microscopic Object Classification through Passive Motion Observations with Holographic Microscopy.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Understanding Hypervelocity Sampling of Biosignatures in Space Missions.Astrobiology · 2021Article
- Towards Determining Biosignature Retention in Icy World Plumes.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Acetylenotrophy: a hidden but ubiquitous microbial metabolism?FEMS microbiology ecology · 2018Review
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- Biological methane production under putative Enceladus-like conditions.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Digital Holographic Microscopy, a Method for Detection of Microorganisms in Plume Samples from Enceladus and Other Icy Worlds.Astrobiology · 2017Article
- Feasibility of Detecting Bioorganic Compounds in Enceladus Plumes with the Enceladus Organic Analyzer.Astrobiology · 2017Article
- A Community Grows around the Geysering World of Enceladus.Astrobiology · 2017Article
- Detecting Darwinism from Molecules in the Enceladus Plumes, Jupiter's Moons, and Other Planetary Water Lagoons.Astrobiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
We analyzed Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) images of the plume of Enceladus to derive particle number densities for the purpose of comparing our results with those obtained from other Cassini instrument investigations. Initial discrepancies in the results from different instruments, as large as factors of 10-20, can be reduced to ∼2 to 3 by accounting for the different times and geometries at which measurements were taken. We estimate the average daily ice production rate, between 2006 and 2010, to be 29 ± 7 kg/s, and a solid-to-vapor ratio, S/V > 0.06. At 50 km altitude, the plume's peak optical depth during the same time period was τ ∼ 10
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