Habitat-OASIS SIGNED
Habitability of Oceans and Aqueous Systems on Icy Satellites
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Project "Habitat-OASIS" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | Germany [DE] |
| Total cost | 1˙995˙250 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙995˙250 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2016-COG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-COG |
| Starting year | 2017 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2017-02-01 to 2022-01-31 |
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| 1 | FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN | DE (BERLIN) | coordinator | 1˙533˙883.00 |
| 2 | RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG | DE (HEIDELBERG) | participant | 461˙366.00 |
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Project objective
Icy moons in the outer solar system are prime candidates for harbouring alien life within their sub-surface oceans. Among them Enceladus and Europa are considered to have the largest astrobiological potential. Habitat-OASIS aims to explore the habitability of the ocean worlds of Enceladus, Europa, and other icy satellites using in situ mass spectrometry from on-going and future space missions. At Enceladus (and probably Europa) the ice grains expelled by active plumes carry matter previously dissolved and suspended in the subsurface oceans, allowing constraining their geochemistry. The mass spectrometers aboard the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn are analysing this material and already delivered spectacular science results. Project 1 of this proposal is the refined data analysis of the Enceladus plume material using novel techniques and is the first ever opportunity to explore in detail a potential ocean habitat outside Earth. Newly developed laser-assisted dispersion experiments will be used to acquire mass spectra on a wide variety of analogue materials, enabling the identification and quantification of inorganic, organic and possibly biogenic compounds embedded in the ice grains. Geochemical aqueous alteration experiments and numerical modelling will support further constraining the habitability of Enceladus and extrapolating the results to other ocean moons. Project 2 will leverage the laboratory capabilities from Project 1 to create a comprehensive library of mass spectra in preparation for the upcoming missions visiting Jupiter’s icy moons: ESA’s JUICE Mission and NASA’s Europa Mission. Even if no plume is present both spacecraft will encounter surface material residing in ejecta clouds around the moons that can be connected to subsurface processes. Having analogue measurements available early in the missions will be critical for exploiting their full potential and will maintain the leading edge of ocean world exploration in Europe.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 |
B. J. Buratti, P. C. Thomas, E. Roussos, C. Howett, M. Seiß, A. R. Hendrix, P. Helfenstein, R. H. Brown, R. N. Clark, T. Denk, G. Filacchione, H. Hoffmann, G. H. Jones, N. Khawaja, P. Kollmann, N. Krupp, J. Lunine, T. W. Momary, C. Paranicas, F. Postberg, M. Sachse, F. Spahn, J. Spencer, R. Srama, T. Albin, K. H. Baines, M. Ciarniello, T. Economou, H.-W. Hsu, S. Kempf, S. M. Krimigis, D. Mitchell Close Cassini flybys of Saturn’s ring moons Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Pandora, and Epimetheus published pages: eaat2349, ISSN: 0036-8075, DOI: 10.1126/science.aat2349 |
Science 364/6445 | 2019-10-03 |
| 2019 |
Fabian Klenner, Frank Postberg, Jon Hillier, Nozair Khawaja, René Reviol, Ralf Srama, Bernd Abel, Ferdinand Stolz, Sascha Kempf Analogue spectra for impact ionization mass spectra of water ice grainsobtainedat different impact speeds in space published pages: , ISSN: 1531-1074, DOI: |
Astrobiology | 2019-10-03 |
| 2018 |
Hsiang-Wen Hsu, Jürgen Schmidt, Sascha Kempf, Frank Postberg, Georg Moragas-Klostermeyer, Martin Seiß, Holger Hoffmann, Marcia Burton, ShengYi Ye, William S. Kurth, Mihály Horányi, Nozair Khawaja, Frank Spahn, Daniel Schirdewahn, James O’Donoghue, Luke Moore, Jeff Cuzzi, Geraint H. Jones, Ralf Srama In situ collection of dust grains falling from Saturn’s rings into its atmosphere published pages: eaat3185, ISSN: 0036-8075, DOI: 10.1126/science.aat3185 |
Science 362/6410 | 2019-10-03 |
| 2019 |
Fabian Klenner, Frank Postberg, Jon Hillier, Nozair Khawaja, René Reviol, Ralf Srama, Bernd Abel, Ferdinand Stolz, Sascha Kempf Analogue spectra for impact ionization mass spectra of water ice grains obtained at different impact speeds in space published pages: , ISSN: 0951-4198, DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8518 |
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry | 2019-10-03 |
| 2018 |
Frank Postberg, Nozair Khawaja, Bernd Abel, Gael Choblet, Christopher R. Glein, Murthy S. Gudipati, Bryana L. Henderson, Hsiang-Wen Hsu, Sascha Kempf, Fabian Klenner, Georg Moragas-Klostermeyer, Brian Magee, Lenz Nölle, Mark Perry, René Reviol, Jürgen Schmidt, Ralf Srama, Ferdinand Stolz, Gabriel Tobie, Mario Trieloff, J. Hunter Waite Macromolecular organic compounds from the depths of Enceladus published pages: 564-568, ISSN: 0028-0836, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0246-4 |
Nature 558/7711 | 2019-05-14 |
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