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:

8:00 AM
 
Lost City and the Search For Life
Deborah S Kelley, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
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
8:45 AM
 
Synthesis and Delivery of Peptides by Comet Impacts: A Possibility of Chemical Evolution in Enceladus’s Subsurface Sea
Haruna Sugahara, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan and Koichi Mimura, Nagoya University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya, Japan
8:55 AM
 
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
9:20 AM
 
REVISITING UVIS OBSERVATIONS OF THE ENCELADUS WATER VAPOR PLUME
Ganna Portyankina, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
9:30 AM
 
A Recent Ocean or Sea on Enceladus
James H Roberts and Angela M Stickle, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
9:40 AM
 
Tidal-Induced Internal Ocean Waves as an Explanation for Enceladus’ Tiger Stripe Pattern and Hotspot Activity
Bert L A Vermeersen1, Leo R Maas2, Sander van Oers2, Anna Rabitti2 and Hermes Jara-Orue1, (1)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Netherlands Inst Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands
9:50 AM
 
Simulations of Enceladus’ Tendril Features
Colin J Mitchell1, Carolyn Porco1 and John W Weiss2, (1)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)St. Martin's University, Lacey, WA, United States
 
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