A Southwest Research Institute scientist will soon use the James Webb Space Telescope to study the habitability of one of Saturn's moons.
— to as small as a sports arena. Enceladus is just 314 miles across — small enough to fit within the length of the United Kingdom. Saturn’s moons differ greatly in their composition, from icy giants with subsurface oceans to small, heavily cratered rocky worlds.
,” the famous geyser in Yellowstone Park, Glein said. “This plume is basically giving us free samples of Enceladus’ ocean, which can allow us to study its chemistry.” Within the next year, the team will get one hour to observe the moon, said Geronimo Villanueva of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Villanueva led the previous study and was the lead author of a paper resulting from the team’s observations. The Argentina native is well-known in the astronomy field for his work mapping water on Mars. He will be working with Glein and others on the subsequent study.
What is known today about Enceladus is mostly from NASA’s Cassini mission, Glein said. The Cassini spacecraft, launched in 1997, spent 20 years in space — 13 of them exploring Saturn. When Cassini’s fuel supply was spent,on Sept. 15, 2017. It continued sending data until it vaporized, according to NASA.
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