Science Objectives for Flagship-Class Mission Concepts for the Search for Evidence of Life at Enceladus

Breaking All the Rules: The First Recorded Hard Substrate Sessile Benthic Community Far Beneath an Antarctic Ice Shelf

(2021) Huw J. Griffiths et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Understanding Hypervelocity Sampling of Biosignatures in Space Missions

(2021) Andres Jaramillo-Botero et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Self-preserving ice layers on CO2 clathrate particles: Implications for Enceladus, Pluto, and similar ocean worlds

(2021) M. Boström et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

A pole-to-equator ocean overturning circulation on Enceladus

(2021) Ana H. Lobo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Quantitative evaluation of the feasibility of sampling the ice plumes at Enceladus for biomarkers of extraterrestrial life

(2021) James S. New et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry

(2021) Stuart M. Marshall et al.   Nature Communications

The Carbonate Geochemistry of Enceladus' Ocean

(2020) Christopher R. Glein et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Five decades of radioglaciology

(2020) Dustin M. Schroeder et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Strength Evolution of Ice Plume Deposit Analogs of Enceladus and Europa

(2020) M. Choukroun et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Ice-Ocean Exchange Processes in the Jovian and Saturnian Satellites

(2020) Krista M. Soderlund et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

The search for organic compounds with TMAH thermochemolysis: From Earth analyses to space exploration experiments

(2020) Yuanyuan He et al.   TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Physiological Capabilities of Cryoconite Hole Microorganisms

(2020) Ewa A. Poniecka et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Resonance locking in giant planets indicated by the rapid orbital expansion of Titan

(2020) Valéry Lainey et al.   Nature Astronomy

Towards Determining Biosignature Retention in Icy World Plumes

(2020) Kathryn Bywaters et al.   Life-Basel

Fully Automated Microchip Electrophoresis Analyzer for Potential Life Detection Missions

(2020) Maria F. Mora et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

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

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

Differences in bioavailability of canonical and non-canonical D-amino acids for marine microbes

(2020) Rui Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Solid-state nanopore sensors

(2020) Liang Xue et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Nanopore sequencing at Mars, Europa, and microgravity conditions

(2020) Christopher E. Carr et al.   NPJ Microgravity

Oxidation processes diversify the metabolic menu on Enceladus

(2020) Christine Ray et al.   ICARUS

SEIS: Insight’s Seismic Experiment for Internal Structure of Mars

(2019) P. Lognonné et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Identification of organic molecules with a laboratory prototype based on the Laser Ablation-CosmOrbitrap

(2019) L. Selliez et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Enceladus's ice shell structure as a window on internal heat production

(2019) Douglas J. Hemingway et al.   ICARUS

Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Applications for the In Situ Measurement of Nonvolatile Organics at Ocean Worlds

(2019) Sarah E. Waller et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Time variability of the Enceladus plumes: Orbital periods, decadal periods, and aperiodic change

(2019) Andrew P. Ingersoll et al.   ICARUS

Surface and basal boundary conditions at the Southern McMurdo and Ross Ice Shelves, Antarctica

(2019) C. GRIMA et al.   JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY

Silica minerals in cumulate eucrites: Insights into their thermal histories

(2019) Haruka Ono et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

The Search for Chiral Asymmetry as a Potential Biosignature in our Solar System

(2019) Daniel P. Glavin et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

The composition and structure of Enceladus' plume from the complete set of Cassini UVIS occultation observations

(2019) C.J. Hansen et al.   ICARUS

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

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

High resolution mass spectrometry for future space missions: comparative analysis of complex organic matter with LAb‐CosmOrbitrap and LDI‐FTICR

(2019) L. Selliez et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Seismicity on tidally active solid-surface worlds

(2019) T.A. Hurford et al.   ICARUS

A Subcritical Water Extractor Prototype for Potential Astrobiology Spaceflight Missions

(2019) F. Kehl et al.   Earth and Space Science

Cascading parallel fractures on Enceladus

(2019) Douglas J. Hemingway et al.   Nature Astronomy

The Ladder of Life Detection

(2018) Marc Neveu et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Vital Signs: Seismology of Icy Ocean Worlds

(2018) Steven D. Vance et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Assessing the potential for measuring Europa's tidal Love number h 2 using radar sounder and topographic imager data

(2018) G. Steinbrügge et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Spatial variations in the dust-to-gas ratio of Enceladus’ plume

(2018) M.M. Hedman et al.   ICARUS

The OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) Instrument

(2018) P. R. Christensen et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Biological methane production under putative Enceladus-like conditions

(2018) Ruth-Sophie Taubner et al.   Nature Communications

Geophysical Investigations of Habitability in Ice-Covered Ocean Worlds

(2018) Steven D. Vance et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Expected Seismicity and the Seismic Noise Environment of Europa

(2018) Mark P. Panning et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Seismic Wave Propagation in Icy Ocean Worlds

(2018) Simon C. Stähler et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Preservation of potential biosignatures in the shallow subsurface of Europa

(2018) T. A. Nordheim et al.   Nature Astronomy

Stability of reagents used for chiral amino acid analysis during spaceflight missions in high-radiation environments

(2018) Jessica S. Creamer et al.   ELECTROPHORESIS

Macromolecular organic compounds from the depths of Enceladus

(2018) Frank Postberg et al.   NATURE

An Orbitrap-based laser desorption/ablation mass spectrometer designed for spaceflight

(2018) Ricardo Arevalo et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

The NASA Roadmap to Ocean Worlds

(2018) Amanda R. Hendrix et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

In situ real-time quantification of microbial communities: Applications to cold and dry volcanic habitats

(2018) Linda S. Powers et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Surface deposition of the Enceladus plume and the zenith angle of emissions

(2018) Ben S. Southworth et al.   ICARUS

Investigation of diurnal variability of water vapor in Enceladus' plume by the Cassini ultraviolet imaging spectrograph

(2017) C. J. Hansen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Radar probing of Jovian icy moons: Understanding subsurface water and structure detectability in the JUICE and Europa missions

(2017) Essam Heggy et al.   ICARUS

Decadal timescale variability of the Enceladus plumes inferred from Cassini images

(2017) Andrew P. Ingersoll et al.   ICARUS

True polar wander of Enceladus from topographic data

(2017) Radwan Tajeddine et al.   ICARUS

Kinetic effect on the freezing of ammonium-sodium-carbonate-chloride brines and implications for the origin of Ceres’ bright spots

(2017) Elena C. Thomas et al.   ICARUS

The near-surface electron radiation environment of Saturn's moon Mimas

(2017) T.A. Nordheim et al.   ICARUS

A probabilistic framework for identifying biosignatures using Pathway Complexity

(2017) Stuart M. Marshall et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

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

(2017) J. Hunter Waite et al.   SCIENCE

OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return from Asteroid (101955) Bennu

(2017) D. S. Lauretta et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Radar attenuation in Europa's ice shell: Obstacles and opportunities for constraining the shell thickness and its thermal structure

(2017) Klára Kalousová et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Powering prolonged hydrothermal activity inside Enceladus

(2017) Gaël Choblet et al.   Nature Astronomy

Detection of Perchlorate and the Soluble Chemistry of Martian Soil at the Phoenix Lander Site

(2017) M. H. Hecht et al.   SCIENCE

A new family of extraterrestrial amino acids in the Murchison meteorite

(2017) Toshiki Koga et al.   Scientific Reports

Nanopore DNA Sequencing and Genome Assembly on the International Space Station

(2017) Sarah L. Castro-Wallace et al.   Scientific Reports

MIDAS: Lessons learned from the first spaceborne atomic force microscope

(2016) Mark Stephen Bentley et al.   ACTA ASTRONAUTICA

THEO concept mission: Testing the Habitability of Enceladus’s Ocean

(2016) Shannon M. MacKenzie et al.   ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH

Enhanced Resolution of Chiral Amino Acids with Capillary Electrophoresis for Biosignature Detection in Extraterrestrial Samples

(2016) Jessica S. Creamer et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Habitability: A Review

(2016) C.S. Cockell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Microbial Morphology and Motility as Biosignatures for Outer Planet Missions

(2016) Jay Nadeau et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Subseafloor microbial communities in hydrogen-rich vent fluids from hydrothermal systems along the Mid-Cayman Rise

(2016) Julie Reveillaud et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Radar detection of the brine extent at McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica, and its control by snow accumulation

(2016) Cyril Grima et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Enceladus's internal ocean and ice shell constrained from Cassini gravity, shape, and libration data

(2016) Ondřej Čadek et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Geophysical controls of chemical disequilibria in Europa

(2016) S. D. Vance et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Controlled boiling on Enceladus. 1. Model of the vapor-driven jets

(2016) Miki Nakajima et al.   ICARUS

Enceladus’s measured physical libration requires a global subsurface ocean

(2016) P.C. Thomas et al.   ICARUS

Compact, lensless digital holographic microscope for remote microbiology

(2016) Eugene Serabyn et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Orbitrap mass analyser for in situ characterisation of planetary environments: Performance evaluation of a laboratory prototype

(2016) Christelle Briois et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Sustained eruptions on Enceladus explained by turbulent dissipation in tiger stripes

(2016) Edwin S. Kite et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Enantioselective Utilization of D-Amino Acids by Deep-Sea Microorganisms

(2016) Takaaki Kubota et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Ocean worlds in the outer solar system

(2016) F. Nimmo et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Deciphering the Complex Chemistry of Deep-Ocean Particles Using Complementary Synchrotron X-ray Microscope and Microprobe Instruments

(2015) Brandy M. Toner et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Implementation of microchip electrophoresis instrumentation for future spaceflight missions

(2015) Peter A. Willis et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

The pH of Enceladus’ ocean

(2015) Christopher R. Glein et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Effect of Enceladus's rapid synchronous spin on interpretation of Cassini gravity

(2015) William B. McKinnon   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Possible evidence for a methane source in Enceladus' ocean

(2015) Alexis Bouquet et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Noble gases, nitrogen, and methane from the deep interior to the atmosphere of Titan

(2015) Christopher R. Glein   ICARUS

Curtain eruptions from Enceladus’ south-polar terrain

(2015) Joseph N. Spitale et al.   NATURE

Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus

(2015) Hsiang-Wen Hsu et al.   NATURE

Pathways for abiotic organic synthesis at submarine hydrothermal fields

(2015) Jill M. McDermott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2015) Yasuhito Sekine et al.   Nature Communications

Lipids as Universal Biomarkers of Extraterrestrial Life

(2014) Christos D. Georgiou et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

(2014) Mark J. Burchell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Follow the Plume: The Habitability of Enceladus

(2014) Christopher P. McKay et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

HOW THE GEYSERS, TIDAL STRESSES, AND THERMAL EMISSION ACROSS THE SOUTH POLAR TERRAIN OF ENCELADUS ARE RELATED

(2014) Carolyn Porco et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

Processing of analogues of plume fallout in cold regions of Enceladus by energetic electrons

(2014) A. Bergantini et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

NATURE'S STARSHIPS. I. OBSERVED ABUNDANCES AND RELATIVE FREQUENCIES OF AMINO ACIDS IN METEORITES

(2014) Alyssa K. Cobb et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Planetary landing-zone reconnaissance using ice-penetrating radar data: Concept validation in Antarctica

(2014) Cyril Grima et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Racemization in Reverse: Evidence that D-Amino Acid Toxicity on Earth Is Controlled by Bacteria with Racemases

(2014) Gaosen Zhang et al.   PLoS One

The Gravity Field and Interior Structure of Enceladus

(2014) L. Iess et al.   SCIENCE

Enceladus: An Active Ice World in the Saturn System

(2013) John R. Spencer et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

ON THE FORMATION OF DIPEPTIDES IN INTERSTELLAR MODEL ICES

(2013) R. I. Kaiser et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Carbon-bearing gas geothermometers for volcanic-hydrothermal systems

(2013) Jens Fiebig et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

The temperature and width of an active fissure on Enceladus measured with Cassini VIMS during the 14 April 2012 South Pole flyover

(2013) Jay D. Goguen et al.   ICARUS

Abundance and Single-Cell Activity of Heterotrophic Bacterial Groups in the Western Arctic Ocean in Summer and Winter

(2012) Mrinalini P. Nikrad et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Orbitrap mass spectrometry with resolving powers above 1,000,000

(2012) Eduard Denisov et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY

Unusual nonterrestrial l-proteinogenic amino acid excesses in the Tagish Lake meteorite

(2012) Daniel P. GLAVIN et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Atomic force microscopy: A nanoscopic view of microbial cell surfaces

(2012) Loredana S. Dorobantu et al.   MICRON

Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

(2012) V. B. Pinheiro et al.   SCIENCE

The Sample Analysis at Mars Investigation and Instrument Suite

(2012) Paul R. Mahaffy et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Quantification of microbial communities in subsurface marine sediments of the Black Sea and off Namibia

(2012) Axel Schippers   Frontiers in Microbiology

Analysis of Carbonaceous Biomarkers with the Mars Organic Analyzer Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis System: Carboxylic Acids

(2011) Amanda M. Stockton et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Cryoclastic origin of particles on the surface of Enceladus

(2011) W. Degruyter et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The composition and structure of the Enceladus plume

(2011) C. J. Hansen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A fracture history on Enceladus provides evidence for a global ocean

(2011) D. Alex Patthoff et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Geophysical implications of the long-wavelength topography of the Saturnian satellites

(2011) F. Nimmo et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Monomer Abundance Distribution Patterns as a Universal Biosignature: Examples from Terrestrial and Digital Life

(2011) Evan D. Dorn et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

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

(2011) F. Postberg et al.   NATURE

Label-Free Bacterial Imaging with Deep-UV-Laser-Induced Native Fluorescence

(2010) R. Bhartia et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Geochemical constraints on the diversity and activity of H2-oxidizing microorganisms in diffuse hydrothermal fluids from a basalt- and an ultramafic-hosted vent

(2010) Mirjam Perner et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Major bacterial contribution to the ocean reservoir of detrital organic carbon and nitrogen

(2010) Karl Kaiser et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

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

The Search for Alien Life in Our Solar System: Strategies and Priorities

(2009) Robert Shapiro et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Capillary Electrophoresis Analysis of Organic Amines and Amino Acids in Saline and Acidic Samples Using the Mars Organic Analyzer

(2009) Amanda M. Stockton et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Signatures of a Shadow Biosphere

(2009) Paul C.W. Davies et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

What makes a planet habitable?

(2009) H. Lammer et al.   ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS REVIEW

Crater modification and geologic activity in Enceladus' heavily cratered plains: Evidence from the impact crater distribution

(2009) Michelle R. Kirchoff et al.   ICARUS

How the Enceladus dust plume feeds Saturn’s E ring

(2009) Sascha Kempf et al.   ICARUS

Subsurface heat transfer on Enceladus: Conditions under which melting occurs

(2009) Andrew P. Ingersoll et al.   ICARUS

Survival of organic compounds in ejecta from hypervelocity impacts on ice

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

No sodium in the vapour plumes of Enceladus

(2009) Nicholas M. Schneider et al.   NATURE

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

(2009) J. H. Waite Jr et al.   NATURE

Discriminating contamination from particle components in spectra of Cassini's dust detector CDA

(2009) F. Postberg et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter Investigation on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission

(2009) David E. Smith et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Analysis with the Mars Organic Analyzer Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis System

(2008) Amanda M. Stockton et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Fluorescence Microscopy as a Tool for In Situ Life Detection

(2008) J.L. Nadeau et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

(2008) Christopher P. McKay et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Near-surface heating on Enceladus and the south polar thermal anomaly

(2008) J. H. Roberts et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Large-scale structure of Saturn's E-ring

(2008) Mihály Horányi et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Solid tidal friction above a liquid water reservoir as the origin of the south pole hotspot on Enceladus

(2008) G TOBIE et al.   ICARUS

An oligarchic microbial assemblage in the anoxic bottom waters of a volcanic subglacial lake

(2008) Eric Gaidos et al.   ISME Journal

Slow dust in Enceladus' plume from condensation and wall collisions in tiger stripe fractures

(2008) Jürgen Schmidt et al.   NATURE

The E-ring in the vicinity of Enceladus

(2007) F. Postberg et al.   ICARUS