Enceladus Explorer

Enceladus Explorer (EnEx) is a planned interplanetary orbiter and lander mission equipped with a subsurface maneuverable ice melting probe suitable to assess the existence of life on Saturn's moon Enceladus.[1]

The astrobiology Enceladus Explorer project is funded by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and is carried out by a research consortium of seven German universities.[1][2] This collaborative project was started on 22 February 2012.[3]

  1. ^ a b Konstantinidis, Konstantinos; Flores Martinez, Claudio L.; Dachwald, Bernd; Ohndorf, Andreas; Dykta, Paul (February 2015). "A lander mission to probe subglacial water on Saturn׳s moon Enceladus for life". Acta Astronautica. 106: 63–89. Bibcode:2015AcAau.106...63K. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2014.09.012. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference congress 2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Staff writers (23 February 2012). "Searching for life in the depths of Enceladus". Saturn Daily. Retrieved 11 April 2015.