Abstract
The discovery by NASA's Cassini mission at Saturn in 2005 of a large plume of material erupting from the south polar terrain of Enceladus, sourced within a subsurface ocean of salty liquid water laced with organic compounds, has brought together scientists from a diverse range of disciplines over the last decade to evaluate this small moon's potential for extraterrestrial life. The collection of papers published today in Astrobiology, as the mission draws to a close, is the outcome of our most recent meeting at UC Berkeley in June 2016. Key Words: Enceladus—Enceladus Focus Group—Ocean world—Search for biosignatures. Astrobiology 17, 815–819.
Highlights
A Community Grows around the Geysering World of Enceladus Carolyn C
The usual planetary and astrobiological sciences were well represented, but this time I had managed to lure to the subject organic chemists, microbiologists, microscopists, oceanographers, experts in microfluidics, those studying problems in the origin of life, and even one genomist from the UC Berkeley research lab responsible for the 2016 announcement of a new, far richer tree of life (Hug et al, 2016)
The papers gathered together in this special collection devoted to Enceladus, with one exception, resulted from our Berkeley meeting
Summary
A Community Grows around the Geysering World of Enceladus Carolyn C. The papers gathered together in this special collection devoted to Enceladus, with one exception, resulted from our Berkeley meeting.
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