Publications by authors named "Charity M Phillips-Lander"
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- * An interdisciplinary group of experts developed a strategic framework for exploring these planetary caves, focusing on areas like astrobiology, geology, and robotics, aiming to guide research for the next decade.
- * They identified 53 priority research questions from an initial list of 198, emphasizing that with sufficient funding and support, advancements in technology could lead to robotic missions investigating lunar and Martian caves for evidence of extraterrestrial life and future human habitation.
revealed that Saturn's Moon Enceladus hosts a subsurface ocean that meets the accepted criteria for habitability with bio-essential elements and compounds, liquid water, and energy sources available in the environment. Whether these conditions are sufficiently abundant and collocated to support life remains unknown and cannot be determined from data. However, thanks to the plume of oceanic material emanating from Enceladus' south pole, a new mission to Enceladus could search for evidence of life without having to descend through kilometers of ice.
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