Enceladus Life Finder
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Enceladus Life Finder is a proposed astrobiology mission concept for a NASA spacecraft intended to assess the habitability of the internal aquatic ocean of Enceladus, which is Saturn's sixth-largest m
Voyager 2 view of Enceladus in 1981: Samarkand Sulci vertical grooves (lower center); Ali Baba and Aladdin craters (upper left)
Enceladus's south pole - Geysers spray water from many locations along the 'tiger stripes' feature.
Artist's impression of possible hydrothermal activity on Enceladus.
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New Frontiers program
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The New Frontiers program is a series of space exploration missions being conducted by NASA with the purpose of furthering the understanding of the Solar System. The program selects medium-class missi
Enceladus Life Finder
…spacecraft. The Enceladus Life Finder mission was first proposed in 2015 for Discovery Mission 13 funding, and then it was proposed in May 2017 to NASA's New Frontiers program Mission 4, but it was not selected. If selected at another future opportunity, the ELF mission would search for biosignature and biomolecules in the…
Juno views Earth in October 2013 during the spacecraft's flyby en route to Jupiter.
Pluto viewed by the spacecraft New Horizons on July 14, 2015
Pluto's moon Charon on July 14, 2015, imaged by "New Horizons"
Artists's concept of Juno at Jupiter