Feasibility of Enceladus plume biosignature analysis: Successful capture of organic ice particles in hypervelocity impacts

Hydrogen, Hydrocarbons, and Habitability Across the Solar System

(2020) Christopher R. Glein et al.   Elements

Characterizing organic particle impacts on inert metal surfaces: Foundations for capturing organic molecules during hypervelocity transits of Enceladus plumes

(2020) J. S. New et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Coumarin-Based Small-Molecule Fluorescent Chemosensors

(2019) Duxia Cao et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Low-mass nitrogen-, oxygen-bearing, and aromatic compounds in Enceladean ice grains

(2019) N Khawaja et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Analog Experiments for the Identification of Trace Biosignatures in Ice Grains from Extraterrestrial Ocean Worlds

(2019) Fabian Klenner et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Macromolecular organic compounds from the depths of Enceladus

(2018) Frank Postberg et al.   NATURE

Cassini finds molecular hydrogen in the Enceladus plume: Evidence for hydrothermal processes

(2017) J. Hunter Waite et al.   SCIENCE

Enceladus and its plume

(2017) Jonathan I. Lunine   Nature Astronomy

Enceladus’s measured physical libration requires a global subsurface ocean

(2016) P.C. Thomas et al.   ICARUS

Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus

(2015) Hsiang-Wen Hsu et al.   NATURE

High-temperature water–rock interactions and hydrothermal environments in the chondrite-like core of Enceladus

(2015) Yasuhito Sekine et al.   Nature Communications

Survival of Organic Materials in Hypervelocity Impacts of Ice on Sand, Ice, and Water in the Laboratory

(2014) Mark J. Burchell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The Gravity Field and Interior Structure of Enceladus

(2014) L. Iess et al.   SCIENCE

A salt-water reservoir as the source of a compositionally stratified plume on Enceladus

(2011) F. Postberg et al.   NATURE

Detection of cometary amines in samples returned by Stardust

(2010) Daniel P. Glavin et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Cometary glycine detected in samples returned by Stardust

(2010) Jamie E. Elsila et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Enhanced Amine and Amino Acid Analysis Using Pacific Blue and the Mars Organic Analyzer Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis System

(2009) Thomas N. Chiesl et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE ENCELADUS PLUME WITH CASSINI-VIMS

(2009) M. M. Hedman et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Survival of organic compounds in ejecta from hypervelocity impacts on ice

(2009) S.A. Bowden et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Sodium salts in E-ring ice grains from an ocean below the surface of Enceladus

(2009) F. Postberg et al.   NATURE

Liquid water on Enceladus from observations of ammonia and 40Ar in the plume

(2009) J. H. Waite Jr et al.   NATURE

The Possible Origin and Persistence of Life on Enceladus and Detection of Biomarkers in the Plume

(2008) Christopher P. McKay et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The E-ring in the vicinity of Enceladus

(2007) F. Postberg et al.   ICARUS