Enceladus in Podcasts
placeSaturn's sixth largest moon, known for its icy surface and geysers.
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But, the mission I'm most excited about is the Enceladus Explorer, a project funded by the German Aerospace Centre that proposes to send a nuclear ice mole – yes, you heard that correctly – to melt its way deep into the crust and expose untouched niches within the ice to search for life.
Outside of the national space agencies, a privately funded mission called Breakthrough Enceladus is also planned, though currently this project appears to be dormant.
We already know Enceladus has all the conditions to kickstart life, so it's exciting to think, what will we be able to find when we look below the ice?
The European Space Agency is racing forward with a mission set to launch in 2042, to arrive at Saturn in 2053 with a potential landing on Enceladus in 2058.
In 2017, amateur astronomer Ted Strike looked back at old Voyager images of Enceladus and found a feature that could have changed the course of the original Cassini mission.
Within the last year, decade-old data from the Cassini composite infrared spectrometer was compared to models of Enceladus' surface temperature.
We still don't fully understand them, but they're a surprising consequence of Enceladus' great geysers.
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