The Astrobiological Exploration of Enceladus - SOLD OUT

In 2005, the Cassini spacecraft made a groundbreaking discovery - a massive plume of ice and gas erupting from the south pole of Enceladus, a small but geologically active moon of Saturn. The plume is now believed to originate from a subsurface ocean of liquid water beneath the moon’s icy crust, with conditions compatible with life, as we know it. This talk will focus on our current understanding of Enceladus' plume and subsurface ocean, and on current strategies to search in them for possible evidence of life.

Speaker: Alfonso Davila, NASA Ames