P010
Enceladus: An Ocean World Odyssey
Session ID#: 249971
Session Description:
Saturn’s moon Enceladus is a geologically active and habitable ocean world. Enceladus offers fresh opportunities for advancing our understanding of planetary processes and searching for signatures of potential life. The most accessible ocean material beyond Earth erupts from the internal plumbing system of Enceladus, forming a plume that modifies the space environment at Saturn.This is the 20th consecutive year of this session, attesting to the phenomenal enthusiasm of our community. You won’t want to miss this one! We welcome the community to submit contributions diving into diverse ranges of phenomena including but not limited to: cryovolcanism, ice fracturing and other tectonic processes, ocean circulation, water-rock reactions, tidal heating, organic chemistry, life detection approaches, Enceladus’s formation, history, and internal structure, and cross comparisons with other ocean worlds including Earth and Europa. Observational, theoretical, laboratory, and field analogue investigations are all welcome.
Index Terms:
0456 Life in extreme environments [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1060 Planetary geochemistry [GEOCHEMISTRY]
8010 Fractures and faults [STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY]
8450 Planetary volcanism [VOLCANOLOGY]
Primary Convener: Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Conveners: Cynthia B Phillips, JPL / NASA / Caltech, Pasadena, United States and Fabian Klenner, University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Fabian Klenner, University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States
Composition of Freshly Ejected Enceladean Ice Grains: Molecular Trail from Core to Plume (Invited) (1852436)
Nozair Khawaja1, Frank Postberg1, Thomas R. O'Sullivan1, Maryse Napoleoni1, Sascha Kempf2, Fabian Klenner3, Yasuhito Sekine4, Maxwell Craddock4, Jon Hillier1, Jonas Simolka5, Lucía Hortal Sánchez1 and Ralf Srama5, (1)Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Geological Sciences, Berlin, Germany, (2)LASP/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States, (4)Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Institute of Science, Tokyo, Japan, (5)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Space Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
Inductive Response of Enceladus’ Ice Shell and Potentially Stratified Ocean (1858187)
Luke Wivell, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Michele Karen Dougherty, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom and Adam Masters, Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
Ocean chemistry, organic type and concentration all influence the distribution of microhabitable environments in Ocean World ice shells (1862842)
Dr. Charity M Phillips-Lander, PhD1, Claire P Marshall2, Tuan Hoang Vu3, Nadia Gonzales3, Ellen Czaplinski3, Michael Malaska3 and Sarah N Lamm4, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Department of Chemistry, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of Kansas, Geology, Lawrence, United States
Simulating Enceladus Plume Encounters: Laboratory Impact Ionization Mass Spectrometry of Salt-Rich Ice Grains (1865500)
Marshall Seaton1, Bryana L Henderson2, Sascha Kempf3, Paul D Asimow4 and Morgan L Cable2, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)LASP/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States
Revealing the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Enceladus' Plume Composition with Ultraviolet Stellar Occultations: Investigations of Habitability with a Future Orbiter (1901426)
Joshua Kammer1, Kurt D Retherford2, Philippa Mary Molyneux2, Thomas K Greathouse2, Karl L Mitchell3, Amanda R Hendrix4 and Mark Simons5, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
A Potential Mushy Source for the Geysers of Enceladus and Other Icy Satellites (Invited) (1921346)
Jacob Buffo1, Colin Meyer2, Francis Nimmo3, Andrew Wells4, Samuel Boury5, Mark Fox-Powell6, Tara Tomlinson2, Geoffrey M Vasil7 and Jamie Parkinson8, (1)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, United States, (3)University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (4)University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)ENS de Lyon, France, (6)Open University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (7)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (8)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Surface Property Comparisons Between Enceladus, Europa, and Iapetus (1925439)
Sophia Grusnis1,2, Emilie M Royer3 and Cynthia B Phillips2, (1)California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)JPL / NASA / Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (3)California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Hydrodynamical Simulations of Vapor-Driven Plumes on Enceladus (1929679)
Yixiao Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Yaoxuan Zeng, Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Beijing, China, Cheng Li, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Wanying Kang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Salt diversity in Enceladus' ice grains observed by Cassini CDA from salt segregation in a frozen and fragmented oceanic spray (1938153)
Frank Postberg1, Fabian Klenner2, Yasuhito Sekine3, Minori Koga4, Juergen Schmidt5, Mark Fox-Powell6, Jon Hillier1, Nozair Khawaja1 and Zenghui Zou5, (1)Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Geological Sciences, Berlin, Germany, (2)University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States, (3)Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Institute of Science, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Earth-Life Science Institute, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, (5)Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institute of Geological Sciences, Berlin, Germany, (6)Open University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
How Hydrogen and Water escape from Enceladus: Insights from gas flow simulations (1942384)
Arnaud Mahieux1, David B Goldstein2, Philip L Varghese2 and Laurence M Trafton2, (1)European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Austin, TX, United States
The Mission to Enceladus – The ESA L4 mission (1943041)
Joern Helbert1, Tara Bruendl2, Martin Haag1, Bjorn Ordoubadian2, Sven Wittig1, Martin Linder2 and L4 Expert Committee, L4 Payload Working Group , (1)European Space Agency, Noordwijk ZH, Netherlands, (2)ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Trace metal availability: a key component of habitability (1974269)
Ethan Edmans, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Kathryn Rico, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Holly Rucker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bacteriology, Madison, United States, Guy Evans, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Betul Kacar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Bacteriology, Madison, WI, United States and Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
Implications of Enceladus Plume Uncertainty on Mission Designs (1980959)
Chloe Gentgen1, Damon Landau2, Michael DiNicola3, Morgan L Cable2, Cynthia B Phillips4, Benjamin P Weiss5 and Olivier L. de Weck6, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Padadena, United States, (4)JPL / NASA / Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (5)MIT, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (6)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA, United States
