... back at the great imagined milestones of Mars exploration that will someday be celebrated as ‘historic sites’. The discovery of Enceladus’ icy jets and their role in creating Saturn’s E-ring is one of the top findings of the Cassini mission...
... salty ocean below Europa’s icy crust, the giant ice ravines on Miranda, or the geysers of Triton and Enceladus? Officially, Pluto is no longer a planet but a ‘dwarf planet’, but this does not stop it from being one...
... past) environments that could nourish biology. Planned missions to the outer solar system moons Europa and Enceladus are also motivated by the hope of finding life beyond Earth. But while we might discover living things...
... the surface of Mars, on moons orbiting the giant planets with a large subsurface ocean (Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Enceladus, Titan), and also deep under the surface of the Earth. Once it was realised that there are...
... the basic conditions for life to get started, as is expected to be the case for the other ‘water worlds’, Enceladus, Ganymede and Europa. Future exploration Much has been gleaned from the missions to visit Titan so far...
... not been. A human voyage to Jupiter and its remarkable moons, to Saturn’s moon Titan and the beguiling Enceladus belongs to the centuries to come, and to different people. Looking inward towards the Sun, we cannot live on Venus...