P51F:
Enceladus: A Habitable World I
Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs: Christopher P McKay, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Carolyn Porco, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners: Christopher P McKay, NASA Ames Research Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Co-conveners: Carolyn Porco, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Christopher P McKay, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
8:15 AM
Ongoing hydrothermal activity in the chondritic core of Enceladus inferred from nano-silica particles and laboratory experiments
Yasuhito Sekine1, Frank Postberg2, Hsiang-Wen Hsu3, Takazo Shibuya4, Katsuhiko Suzuki5, Yuka Masaki5, Tatsu Kuwatani6, Shogo Tachibana7 and Sin-iti Sirono8, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology - JAMSTEC, Kanagawa, Japan, (5)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (6)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (7)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (8)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
8:30 AM
Antarctic analogs for Enceladus
Alison E Murray, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Dale T Andersen, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States and Christopher P McKay, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
9:10 AM
Constraining the Enceladus Plume and Understanding Its Physics via Numerical Simulation from Underground Source to Infinity
Seng Keat Yeoh1, Zheng Li2, David B Goldstein3, Philip L Varghese3, Laurence M Trafton4 and Deborah A Levin2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Austin, TX, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Astronomy, Austin, TX, United States