Capítulo de Libro
Is the Ocean of Enceladus in a Primitive Evolutionary Stage?
Autor/es | Villavicencio Valero, K.
Ramírez Juidias, Emilio Ávila Bosch, A. |
Coordinador/Director | Chemin, Yann-Henri |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería Gráfica Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería Gráfica |
Fecha de publicación | 2022 |
Fecha de depósito | 2024-02-23 |
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ISBN/ISSN | 978-1-80356-120-2 |
Resumen | Enceladus has a subsurface ocean in the South Pole that has been inferred due to the presence of water vapor and other molecules like molecular hydrogen and ammonia detected by the Cassini mission from the ejection of ... Enceladus has a subsurface ocean in the South Pole that has been inferred due to the presence of water vapor and other molecules like molecular hydrogen and ammonia detected by the Cassini mission from the ejection of material through the plumes in that region. The chemical composition of this ocean could give some information about the evolutionary stage of the icy moon if its components are found to be similar with the aqueous chemistry of the primitive oceans on Earth during glacial periods. Here we present a comparative geochemical analysis between the ocean of Enceladus and the aqueous composition of the oceans on Earth during the Snowball Event, in order to figure out if there are similar species, how the interaction of the metabolic processes between them works and if, in the future, those molecules could evolve making possible the emergence of life. |
Cita | Villavicencio Valero, K., Ramírez Juidias, E. y Ávila Bosch, A. (2022). Is the Ocean of Enceladus in a Primitive Evolutionary Stage?. En Y. Chemin (Ed.), Astronomy and Planetary Science - From Cryovolcanism to Black Holes and Galactic Evolution (pp. 97-112). London: Intechopen. |