Injecting far-flung ice-covered lunar oceans with earthly microbes to see how life is shaped may seem like the diabolical ...

"Slow rates of amino acid destruction in biological samples under Europa- and Enceladus-like surface conditions bolster the case for future life-detection measurements by lander missions.

so allowing Enceladus to remain in New Frontiers allows extra flexibility.” Despite beating rival concept missions—specifically the Europa Lander, the Mercury Lander, the Neptune-Triton ...

Sending a dedicated mission to Enceladus is a priority for astronomers ... “Those plume deposits could be taken inside a lander, melted, and analyzed for dissolved salts, gases, organic ...

Europa and Enceladus, icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn ... for future life-detection measurements by Europa and Enceladus lander missions," said Pavlov. "Our results indicate that the rates of ...

A Europa Lander prototype was just successfully field tested on Alaska's Matanuska Glacier to simulate the icy conditions of ...

In fact, the Europa design might transfer quite well to an Enceladus mission, Arevalo says, and NASA is considering a flagship lander mission to the Saturnian moon sometime in the next decade ...

The soccer ball-size robot could use its thrusters to leap across hazardous terrain, like blades of ice and crevasses, on Europa and Enceladus. A lander would support the robot and supply SPARROW ...

Cassini’s discovery of evidence for a global liquid ocean on the moon makes an Enceladus lander a high priority. In the meantime, people can continue to celebrate the achievements of Cassini ...