Moonraker: Enceladus Multiple Flyby Mission
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378289%3A_____%2F22%3A00565945" target="_blank" >RIV/68378289:_____/22:00565945 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11320/22:10456796
Result on the web
<a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac9c03" target="_blank" >https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac9c03</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac9c03" target="_blank" >10.3847/PSJ/ac9c03</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Moonraker: Enceladus Multiple Flyby Mission
Original language description
Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, possesses an internal water ocean and jets expelling ocean material into space. Cassini investigations indicated that the subsurface ocean could be a habitable environment having a complex interaction with the rocky core. Further investigation of the composition of the plume formed by the jets is necessary to fully understand the ocean, its potential habitability, and what it tells us about Enceladus’s origin. Moonraker has been proposed as an ESA M-class mission designed to orbit Saturn and perform multiple flybys of Enceladus, focusing on traversals of the plume. The proposed Moonraker mission consists of an ESA-provided platform with strong heritage from JUICE and Mars Sample Return and carrying a suite of instruments dedicated to plume and surface analysis. The nominal Moonraker mission has a duration of ∼13.5 yr. It includes a 23-flyby segment with 189 days allocated for the science phase and can be expanded with additional segments if resources allow. The mission concept consists of investigating (i) the habitability conditions of present-day Enceladus and its internal ocean, (ii) the mechanisms at play for the communication between the internal ocean and the surface of the South Polar Terrain, and (iii) the formation conditions of the moon. Moonraker, thanks to state-of-the-art instruments representing a significant improvement over Cassini's payload, would quantify the abundance of key species in the plume, isotopic ratios, and the physical parameters of the plume and the surface. Such a mission would pave the way for a possible future landed mission.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ20-13616Y" target="_blank" >GJ20-13616Y: Detection of dust impacts on spacecraft by electric field instruments</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
The Planetary Science Journal
ISSN
2632-3338
e-ISSN
2632-3338
Volume of the periodical
3
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
268
UT code for WoS article
000922128400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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