Detection of sodium-salt-rich ice grains emitted from the plume of the Saturnian moon
Enceladus suggests that the grains formed as frozen droplets from a liquid water reservoir …

Interstellar dust (ISD) is the condensed phase of the interstellar medium. In situ data from the
Cosmic Dust Analyzer on board the Cassini spacecraft reveal that the Saturnian system is …

Enceladus is the first world beyond Earth for which we have diagnostic observational data
concerning the composition of an extant ocean. The abundances of chemical species in the …

INTRODUCTION During the Cassini spacecraft's Grand Finale mission in 2017, it performed
22 traversals of the 2000-km-wide region between Saturn and its innermost D ring. During …

Giant planets helped to shape the conditions we see in the Solar System today and they
account for more than 99% of the mass of the Sun's planetary system. They can be …

Saturn's large and diffuse E ring is populated by microscopic water ice dust particles, which
originate from the Enceladus plume. Cassini's Cosmic Dust Analyser sampled these ice …

Titan, with its organically rich and dynamic atmosphere and geology, and Enceladus, with its
active plume, both harbouring global subsurface oceans, are prime environments in which …

Enceladus is the first planetary object for which direct sampling of a subsurface water
reservoir, likely habitable, has been performed. Over a decade of flybys and seven …

Observations from Cassini have identified nanometer-sized silica grains in Saturn's E-ring
although their origin is unclear. Tidal deformation within Enceladus' silicate core has been …

Saturn's rings have been estimated to be as young as about 100 to 400 million years old
according to the hypothesis that non-icy micrometeoroid bombardment acts to darken the …