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The researchers tested the software on unprocessed images of comet Hartley 2 and Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Saturn's moon Enceladus stole back the limelight last week when NASA reported firm evidence of an ocean linked to geysers at its south pole (see diagram below.
Cassini scientist Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University of Rome Italy and colleagues have mapped now Enceladus's gravity
The constantly gushing geysers would let us easily sample those seas making Enceladus a prime target for a life-seeking mission says Cassini scientist Carolyn Porco.
The habitable zone of Enceladus remains the most well studied well understood and accessible of all the destinations for finding life
Could Cassini yet yield insights that would swing things in favour of Enceladus? The craft is in its twilight years
But first it will fly by Enceladus one more time and the team will be watching for any molecular hydrogen in the plumes.
but Enceladus is tiny. That thing should be frozen solid and dead as a doorbell says NASA program scientist Curt Niebur who heads the committee that will evaluate science instruments for a Europa mission.
#Buried'Lake superior'seen on Saturn's moon Enceladus Saturn's icy moon Enceladus already known for spitting plumes of water into space just got even more interesting.
if only a suitable mission could be arranged NASA's Cassini orbiter first spotted spectacular plumes at Enceladus's south pole in 2005 shortly after arriving at Saturn.
Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and his colleagues used radar On earth to track Cassini on three separate fly-bys of Enceladus
They found that Enceladus has a rocky core and an icy crust. Before we knew almost nothing about the core beyond its likely existence.
Hosting an ocean in contact with rocks boosts the chances that Enceladus hosts life because the rocks could leach elements like potassium sulphur and phosphorus vital for life into the water.
because it wouldn't be in contact with the rock says team member Jonathan Lunine at Cornell University in Ithaca New york. This gravity map hinting at a much larger ocean is a more favourable model for having some sort of life in Enceladus's interior.
However Cassini team member Carolyn Porco at the Space science Institute in Boulder Colorado has written a paper (soon to appear in the journal Astrobiology) arguing for a mission to collect samples from Enceladus and return them to Earth.
As for the possibility of the sea freezing completely it is true that Enceladus is losing a lot of heat to space
We are looking at Enceladus at a wonderful special time where it's very active
They hope their propelled Cubesats will one day fly to Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa, both
the ice plumes of Enceladus or wherever scientist-explorers one day hope to discover and quantify nucleic acid sequences.
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