A Recipe for Geophysical Exploration of Enceladus

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2020-08-06

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Anton I. Ermakov et al., A Recipe for Geophysical Exploration of Enceladus, https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02887

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Orbital geophysical investigations of Enceladus are critical to understand its energy balance. Mapping Enceladus' gravity field, improving the accuracy of the physical libration amplitude, and measuring Enceladus' tidal response would provide critical constraints on the internal structure, thus establishing a framework for assessing Enceladus' long-term habitability.