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A Clathrate Reservoir Hypothesis for Enceladus' South Polar Plume
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post Dec 14 2006, 07:00 PM
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From the December 15, 2006, issue of Science:

A Clathrate Reservoir Hypothesis for Enceladus' South Polar Plume
Susan W. Kieffer, Xinli Lu, Craig M. Bethke, John R. Spencer, Stephen Marshak, and Alexandra Navrotsky
Science 314, 1764-1766 (2006)
Abstract
Supporting Online Material

See also the accompanying News of the Week article "A Dry View of Enceladus Puts a Damper on Chances for Life There" by Richard Kerr.

EDIT: See also the related Space.com story.

2nd EDIT: See "Scientists propose alternate model for plume on Enceladus."

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post Dec 19 2006, 10:30 AM
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One question I have about the Matson et al. paper: what happened to the CO? Does it not come out together with the water, or is all the CO within the production region converted to CH4?
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- AlexBlackwell   A Clathrate Reservoir Hypothesis for Enceladus' South Polar Plume   Dec 14 2006, 07:00 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   The artilces are now downloadable from the Science...   Dec 14 2006, 09:31 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Dec 14 2006, 09:00...   Dec 14 2006, 10:38 PM
- - Littlebit   I am a little confused by the motivation here: The...   Dec 15 2006, 02:41 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (Littlebit @ Dec 15 2006, 04:41 AM)...   Dec 15 2006, 07:10 PM
- - qraal   Hi All Sorry for a highly prejudicial view, but I...   Dec 15 2006, 10:33 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   Matson et al. have an interesting paper in press w...   Dec 18 2006, 07:23 PM
|- - volcanopele   Thanks for posting the link, Alex. I wanted to wa...   Dec 19 2006, 05:12 AM
|- - Gsnorgathon   Thanks for the explanation, Jason. Those of us up ...   Dec 19 2006, 05:54 AM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 18 2006, 07:12 P...   Dec 21 2006, 06:29 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Dec 21 2006, 08:29...   Dec 21 2006, 08:30 PM
- - remcook   One question I have about the Matson et al. paper:...   Dec 19 2006, 10:30 AM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (remcook @ Dec 19 2006, 12:30 AM) O...   Dec 21 2006, 06:23 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   No sooner do I revive this thread with the two ite...   Dec 21 2006, 06:31 PM
- - nprev   Any new thoughts in the planetary science communit...   Dec 21 2006, 06:43 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 21 2006, 08:43 AM) Any...   Dec 21 2006, 07:32 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Dec 21 2006, 09:32...   Dec 21 2006, 09:05 PM
- - volcanopele   The current thinking is that Saturn's moons fo...   Dec 21 2006, 07:33 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 21 2006, 09:33 A...   Dec 21 2006, 07:44 PM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Dec 21 2006, 11:44...   Dec 21 2006, 08:19 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   For the sake of completeness, I thought I would po...   Dec 22 2006, 08:16 PM
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|- - martin peters   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 1 2007, 03:52 PM) ....   Mar 3 2007, 04:05 PM
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