P001
Enceladus: A Habitable World Beckons I

Monday, 7 December 2020: 04:00-05:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Conveners:  Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States and William B McKinnon, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Chairs:  Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States and William B McKinnon, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
04:00
Welcoming Remarks
04:01
Exploring the transition from prebiotic chemistry to biology using molecular assembly theory (Invited) (665934)
Leroy Cronin, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12, United Kingdom
04:08
Abundant phosphorus for life in the Enceladus ocean (771171)
Jihua Hao1, Christopher R Glein2, Fang Huang3, Nathan Yee4, David C Catling5, Frank Postberg6, Jon Hillier6 and Robert Hazen7, (1)Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)CSIRO, Mineral Resources, Kensington, WA, Australia, (4)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (5)University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (7)Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
04:15
Mass Spectrometric Fingerprints of Archaea and Bacteria for Life Detection on Icy Moons (722227)
Tara Salter, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Hunter Waite Jr, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States and Mark A Sephton, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
04:22
A New Global Topographic Map of Enceladus: Polar Signatures and Large Basin Distributions (761085)
Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States and William B McKinnon, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, United States
04:29
Hypervelocity Sampling of the Enceladus Plume: Implications for Astrobiology Investigations (665329)
Sarah E. Waller1, Andres Jaramillo-Botero2, Morgan E.C. Miller3, Sally Burke4, Robert Continetti3, Robert P Hodyss5, Michael Malaska6, Amy Hofmann1, Bernd Abel7, Frank Postberg8, Jonathan I Lunine9 and Morgan L Cable10, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (4)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (8)Freie Universitӓt Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (9)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (10)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
04:36
Chemical fractionation in Enceladus’ plume driven by dynamic exsolution and condensation (677146)
Lucas Fifer, University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, United States, David C Catling, University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Jonathan D Toner, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
04:43
Methanogenic Life at Enceladus Seafloor as a Possible Explanation for Cassini’s Observations: a Bayesian Analysis of a Mechanistic Ecological-Geochemical Model (756700)
Antonin Affholder1,2, Francois J Guyot3, Boris Sauterey1, Regis Ferrière1,4 and Stephane Mazevet5, (1)ENS, IBENS, Paris, France, (2)IMCEE Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides, Paris, France, (3)Sorbonne Université - MNHN - CNRS - IMPMC, Paris, France, (4)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (5)Paris Observatory, IMCCE, Meudon, France
04:50
Enceladus Orbilander: A Flagship Mission Concept for the Planetary Decadal Survey (Invited) (665710)
Shannon MacKenzie1, Marc Neveu2,3, Jonathan I Lunine4, Alfonso Davila5, Robert E Gold6, Kathleen L Craft7, Morgan L Cable8, Jennifer L Eigenbrode9, Christopher R Glein10, Jason Daniel Hofgartner11, Charity M Phillips-Lander10, Jack H Waite Jr12, Christopher McKay13, Dana Burton14 and and the Orbilander Mission Concept Study Team, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, (4)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (5)SETI/NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (11)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)Southwest Research Institute, Space Sciences and Engineering, San Antonio, TX, United States, (13)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (14)George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
04:57
Discussion
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