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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Quantitative evaluation of the feasibility of sampling the ice plumes at Enceladus for biomarkers of extraterrestrial life.

James S New, Bahar Kazemi, Vassilia Spathis, Mark C Price, Richard A Mathies, Anna L Butterworth

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Detection of intact amino acids with a hypervelocity ice grain impact mass spectrometer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

James S NewSpace Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.ORCID 0000-0001-7473-8874
Bahar KazemiDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.ORCID 0000-0002-2160-7819
Vassilia SpathisSchool of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Kent CT2 7NH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5745-4383
Mark C PriceSchool of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Kent CT2 7NH, United Kingdom.
Richard A MathiesSpace Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.ORCID 0000-0001-6921-2747
Anna L ButterworthSpace Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; butterworth@berkeley.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6439-1472
University of California, Berkeley · USUniversity of Kent · GB

Funding

Shared Services Center NASA 80NSSC18K0600Shared Services Center NASA 80NSSC19K0600
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, is a compelling destination for a probe seeking biosignatures of extraterrestrial life because its subsurface ocean exhibits significant organic chemistry that is directly accessible by sampling cryovolcanic plumes. State-of-the-art organic chemical analysis instruments can perform valuable science measurements at Enceladus provided they receive sufficient plume material in a fly-by or orbiter plume transit. To explore the feasibility of plume sampling, we performed light gas gun experiments impacting micrometer-sized ice particles containing a fluorescent dye biosignature simulant into a variety of soft metal capture surfaces at velocities from 800 m ⋅ s

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MoonOrigin of LifeSaturnAtmosphereBiomarkersExobiologyExtraterrestrial EnvironmentFeasibility StudiesIceBiomarkersIceastrobiologyice particle impactsocean worldsplanetary explorationspace sciences instrumentation

Identifiers

PMID34493668
PMCPMC8449353
OpenAlexW3196561307

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