Predicting the Effect of Surface Properties on Enceladus for Landing
John M. Harmon,
Morgan L. Cable,
Scott J. Moreland
et al.
Abstract:The prospect of landing on the surface of Enceladus comes with the question of whether the surface conditions permit selection and certification of one or more safe landing sites in an area of high science value. On Enceladus, the search for biosignatures in plume materials is a high science value objective that correlates with proximity to the south polar terrain, where the plume deposition rate is highest; however, such areas may be unsafe if unsintered particles make the landing site unstable. To investigat… Show more
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