Liquid water on Enceladus from observations of ammonia and 40Ar in the plume
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Reduced nitrogen species have already been detected in the plumes of Enceladus.
“Reduced nitrogen species have already been detected in the plumes of Enceladus (Waite et al. 2009), which suggests that the hydrothermally-derived reactivity present at the oceanic floor could also yield the nucleotides (or at least the nucleobases) required for an RNA World-like scenario.”
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“Indeed, gaseous H2O, CO2, CH4, NH3, and perhaps H2S were detected during multiple flybys of Enceladus when the Cassini spacecraft flew through the plume (Waite et al., 2009).”
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- Authors
- Waite Jr, J. H., Lewis, W. S., Magee, B. A., Lunine, J. I., McKinnon, W. B., Glein, C. R., Mousis, O., Young, D. T., Brockwell, T., Westlake, J., Nguyen, M.-J., Teolis, B. D., Niemann, H. B., McNutt Jr, R. L., Perry, M., & Ip, W.-H.
- Affiliations
- Southwest Research Institute (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Arizona State University (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (US)
- National Central University (TW)
- Corresponding author
- Lewis, W. S.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2009-07-23
- Volume
- 460
- Issue
- 7254
- Pages
- 487-490
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2122747835
- Cited by
- 588
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 18.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2009-08-27)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Southwest Research Institute
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Planetary Science and Exploration
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Keywords
- Enceladus, cryovolcanic plumes, ammonia, argon-40, liquid water, subsurface ocean, ice shell, volatile degassing, deuterium, organic compounds, clathrate hydrates
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