Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer: Enceladus Plume Composition and Structure

By J. Waite, M. Combi, W. Ip, T. Cravens, R. McNutt, W. Kasprzak, R. Yelle, Jan Luhmann, H. Niemann, D. Gell and 4 more. Science, 2006

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• Long-Term Stability of a Subsurface Ocean on Enceladus (2007, background): “Furthermore, there is currently no observational evidence for NH3 in the plumes (Waite et al., 2006).”
• Ion and neutral sources and sinks within Saturn's inner magnetosphere: Cassini results (2008, background): “, dust particles) emanating from its south polar region (Porco et al., 2006; Hansen et al., 2006; Waite et al., 2006; Tokar et al., 2006; Brown et al., 2006; Spencer et al., 2006; Spahn et al., 2006; Dougherty et al., 2006; Jones et al., 2006).”
• Shapes of the saturnian icy satellites and their significance (2007, background): “Observation of ongoing activity (Porco et al., 2006; Spencer et al., 2006; Waite et al., 2006; Dougherty et al., 2006; Hansen et al., 2006) and the presence of a water-ice surface covering an object of mean density 1608 kg m−3 reinforce the likelihood of differentiation.”
• Enceladus: Present internal structure and differentiation by early and long-term radiogenic heating (2007, background): “Enceladus also has an atmosphere which suggests some geologic activity since a sputtered or sublimated atmosphere would be lost due to Enceladus’ small size and weak gravity (Dougherty et al., 2006; Hansen et al., 2006; Waite et al., 2006).”
• Planetary habitability: lessons learned from terrestrial analogues (2014, neutral): “N 2 , CO 2 , CH 4 ) (Waite et al .”
• PROBING FOR EVIDENCE OF PLUMES ON EUROPA WITH HST/STIS (2016, background): “At Enceladus, where the Cassini spacecraft has directly observed plumes (Porco et al. 2006), the water gas velocities are in the range of 300–500 m s−1 (Waite et al. 2006; Tian et al. 2007; Brilliantov et al. 2008).”
• The pH of Enceladus’ ocean (2015, background): “…by water vapor (Hansen et al., 2006; 2011), but data from the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) show that it also contains appreciable quantities of CO2 (Waite et al., 2006; 2009; 2011; 2013), which can explain the presence of solid CO2 in the south polar region (Brown et al., 2006).”
• Enceladus's internal ocean and ice shell constrained from Cassini gravity, shape, and libration data (2016, background): “Since the discovery of a surprising plume activity at Enceladus’s South Pole [Porco et al., 2006; Hansen et al., 2006; Waite et al., 2006; Spencer et al., 2006], a series of geophysical evidence has hinted at the presence of a liquid water reservoir beneath the ice shell [Collins and Goodman, 2007;…”