P010
Deep Dive Enceladus

Session ID#: 74435

Session Description:
We continue this long-standing special session on Saturn’s geysering moon, Enceladus, with a strongly multi-disciplinary examination of the moon’s surface, interior, ocean, and south-polar plume.

Our ultimate goals are: 1) the synthesis of the latest information and ideas from fields as diverse as planetary geophysics, volcanology, microbiology, oceanography, biogeochemistry, astrobiology, hydrothermal systems, seafloor geology and geophysics, and origin of life; and 2) utilizing these new results in the development of a framework for evaluating the moon’s potential for life and assessing the best means to search for life in the future.

Cassini data analysis is still very much ongoing. New theoretical studies and improvements in established models are producing new insights. There will be much to discuss.

As in years past, we welcome submissions in the above-mentioned areas. Presentations on concepts for future missions back to Enceladus will also be considered.

Index Terms:

4850 Marine organic chemistry [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
5215 Origin of life [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
6282 Enceladus [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
8450 Planetary volcanism [VOLCANOLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
Convener:  Carolyn Porco, Space Science Institute, CICLOPS, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Towards the Validation of a Volumetric Imaging Concept for the SAR Exploration of Enceladus (489978)
Andreas Benedikter1, Marc Rodriguez-Cassola1, Gerhard Krieger1, Rolf Scheiber1, Gustavo Martin del Campo Becerra1, Ralf Horn1, Alberto Moreira1, Michael Stelzig2 and Martin Vossiek2, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Microwaves and Radar Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Microwaves and Photonics, Erlangen, Germany
 
A concept of minor tether mission back to Enceladus (496383)
Juan R Sanmartin, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain and Jesus Pelaez, Madrid Tecnical University, Applied Physics, Madrid, Spain
 
Analyzing Enceladus’ Plume Constituents: First Steps to Experimentally Simulating Hypervelocity Impacts (503138)
Sarah E. Waller1, Nicholas Tallarida1, James L Lambert1, Anton E. Belousov1, Stojan M Madzunkov2, Murray Darrach3, Robert P Hodyss3, Michael Malaska2, Amy Hofmann4, Ales Charvat5, Bernd Abel5, Frank Postberg6, Jonathan I Lunine7 and Morgan L Cable8, (1)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (6)Freie Universitӓt Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (7)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Determining the Viability of Fluorescence Spectroscopy for Detecting Complex Biomolecules at the Plume of Enceladus (508936)
Erin Redwing, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Christopher McKay, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Imke De Pater, Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Nathan Bramall, Leiden Measurement Technology, LLC, Sunnyvale, CA, United States
 
Cascading Parallel Fractures on Enceladus: Origin of the Tiger Stripes (509862)
Douglas Hemingway, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States, Maxwell L Rudolph, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States and Michael Manga, Univ of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Systems Biochemistry on Enceladus (Invited) (512573)
Sara Walker, Arizona State University, Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Probabilities that Enceladus Received Life from Earth, Mars or Another Stellar System (Invited) (519281)
Henry Melosh, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
 
Evaluation of Science Measurement Capabilities for Enceladus Plume Fly-By Flight Profiles Based on Experimental HyperVelocity Particle Impact Studies and Enceladus Organic Analyzer (EOA) Sample Analysis Capabilities (525852)
Richard A. Mathies, James S New, Matin Golozar, Jeremy McCauley and Anna L Butterworth, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Detection of low mass amines, carbonyls and aromatics from within Enceladus – suitable precursors for biologically-relevant hydrothermal synthesis (532550)
Nozair Khawaja1, Frank Postberg1, Jon Hillier1, Fabian Klenner1, Sascha Kempf2, Lenz Nölle1, René Reviol3, Zenghui Zou1 and Ralf Srama4, (1)Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)LASP/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, (4)University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
 
Internal energy dissipation in Enceladus’s subsurface ocean from tides and libration & the role of inertial waves (535090)
Jeremy Rekier1, Antony Trinh2, Andres Santiago Triana1 and Veronique M A Dehant3, (1)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, (2)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Royal Observatory Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
 
A new sampling system tailored to experimentally-derived mechanical properties of icy analogs for evolved Enceladus surface plume deposits (547026)
Robert P Hodyss1, Mathieu Choukroun1, Paul Backes2, Mircea Badescu2, Eloise Marteau2, Jamie Molaro3, Scott Moreland2, Eli Phelps2 and Dario Riccobono2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Maturation of the Enceladus Organic Analyzer (EOA) for Automated Sensitive Detection of Biosignature Compounds in Enceladus Plumes (551165)
Matin Golozar1,2, Laura Casto1,2, Jungkyu Kim3, Zachary Estlack3, Amanda M. Stockton4, James S New1, Jeremy McCauley1, Anna L Butterworth1 and Richard A. Mathies1,2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Geochemical Properties of the inner ocean of Enceladus (554313)
Alma Karen Ramirez-Cabañas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico and Alberto Flandes, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
 
Metagenomic Profiling of the Methane-rich Anoxic Basin of the Antarctic Lake Untersee as an Ocean Worlds Analog. (558136)
Nicole Y. Wagner, Georgetown University, Biology, Washington, DC, United States, Aria Hahn, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Dale T Andersen, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, Cameron Roy, McGill University, Geography, Montreal, QC, Canada, Mary Beth Wilhelm, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Mia Vanderwilt, Georgetown University, Science, Technology and International Affairs, Washington, DC, United States and Sarah Johnson, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States
 
Hypervelocity Particle Capture on Inert Metal Substrates: Foundations for Organic Particle Capture and Analysis of Enceladus Plume Transects. (559528)
James S New1, Richard A. Mathies1, Anna L Butterworth1, Mark C Price2, Bahar Kazemi3, Vassilia Spathis2 and Matin Golozar1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom, (3)University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) (628886)
Masahiro Ono1, Kalind Carpenter2, Morgan L Cable3, Brian H. Wilcox4 and Luis Phillipe Tosi2, (1)Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States
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