[ { "id": "authors:d98xd-52q54", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "d98xd-52q54", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200413-095024607", "type": "article", "title": "Exo-Ocean Exploration with Deep-Sea Sensor and Platform Technologies", "author": [ { "family_name": "Aguzzi", "given_name": "J.", "clpid": "Aguzzi-J" }, { "family_name": "Flexas", "given_name": "M. M.", "orcid": "0000-0002-0617-3004", "clpid": "Flexas-M-M" }, { "family_name": "Fl\u00f6gel", "given_name": "S.", "clpid": "Fl\u00f6gel-S" }, { "family_name": "Lo Iacono", "given_name": "C.", "clpid": "Lo-Iacono-C" }, { "family_name": "Tangherlini", "given_name": "M.", "clpid": "Tangherlini-M" }, { "family_name": "Costa", "given_name": "C.", "clpid": "Costa-C" }, { "family_name": "Marini", "given_name": "S.", "clpid": "Marini-S" }, { "family_name": "Bahamon", "given_name": "N.", "clpid": "Bahamon-N" }, { "family_name": "Martini", "given_name": "S.", "clpid": "Martini-S" }, { "family_name": "Fanelli", "given_name": "E.", "clpid": "Fanelli-E" }, { "family_name": "Danovaro", "given_name": "R.", "clpid": "Danovaro-R" }, { "family_name": "Stefanni", "given_name": "S.", "clpid": "Stefanni-S" }, { "family_name": "Thomsen", "given_name": "L.", "clpid": "Thomsen-L" }, { "family_name": "Riccobene", "given_name": "G.", "clpid": "Riccobene-G" }, { "family_name": "Hildebrandt", "given_name": "M.", "clpid": "Hildebrandt-M" }, { "family_name": "Masmitja", "given_name": "I.", "clpid": "Masmitja-I" }, { "family_name": "Del Rio", "given_name": "J.", "clpid": "Del-Rio-J" }, { "family_name": "Clark", "given_name": "E. B.", "clpid": "Clark-E-B" }, { "family_name": "Branch", "given_name": "A.", "clpid": "Branch-A" }, { "family_name": "Weiss", "given_name": "P.", "clpid": "Weiss-P" }, { "family_name": "Klesh", "given_name": "A. T.", "clpid": "Klesh-A-T" }, { "family_name": "Schodlok", "given_name": "M. P.", "clpid": "Schodlok-M-P" } ], "abstract": "One of Saturn's largest moons, Enceladus, possesses a vast extraterrestrial ocean (i.e., exo-ocean) that is increasingly becoming the hotspot of future research initiatives dedicated to the exploration of putative life. Here, a new bio-exploration concept design for Enceladus' exo-ocean is proposed, focusing on the potential presence of organisms across a wide range of sizes (i.e., from uni- to multicellular and animal-like), according to state-of-the-art sensor and robotic platform technologies used in terrestrial deep-sea research. In particular, we focus on combined direct and indirect life-detection capabilities, based on optoacoustic imaging and passive acoustics, as well as molecular approaches. Such biologically oriented sampling can be accompanied by concomitant geochemical and oceanographic measurements to provide data relevant to exo-ocean exploration and understanding. Finally, we describe how this multidisciplinary monitoring approach is currently enabled in terrestrial oceans through cabled (fixed) observatories and their related mobile multiparametric platforms (i.e., Autonomous Underwater and Remotely Operated Vehicles, as well as crawlers, rovers, and biomimetic robots) and how their modified design can be used for exo-ocean exploration.", "doi": "10.1089/ast.2019.2129", "issn": "1531-1074", "publisher": "Mary Ann Liebert", "publication": "Astrobiology", "publication_date": "2020-07", "series_number": "7", "volume": "20", "issue": "7", "pages": "897-915" }, { "id": "authors:ndz6k-gd066", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "ndz6k-gd066", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170622-081730492", "type": "book_section", "title": "A Fractionated Space Weather Base at L_5 using CubeSats and Solar Sails", "book_title": "Advances in Solar Sailing", "author": [ { "family_name": "Liewer", "given_name": "Paulett C.", "clpid": "Liewer-P-C" }, { "family_name": "Klesh", "given_name": "Andrew T.", "clpid": "Klesh-A-T" }, { "family_name": "Lo", "given_name": "Martin W.", "clpid": "Lo-Martin-W" }, { "family_name": "Murphy", "given_name": "Neil", "clpid": "Murphy-N" }, { "family_name": "Staehle", "given_name": "Robert L.", "clpid": "Staehle-R-L" }, { "family_name": "Angelopoulos", "given_name": "Vassilis", "clpid": "Angelopoulos-V" }, { "family_name": "Anderson", "given_name": "Brian D.", "clpid": "Anderson-B-D" }, { "family_name": "Arya", "given_name": "Manan", "clpid": "Arya-M" }, { "family_name": "Pellegrino", "given_name": "Sergio", "orcid": "0000-0001-9373-3278", "clpid": "Pellegrino-S" }, { "family_name": "Cutler", "given_name": "James W.", "clpid": "Cutler-J-W" }, { "family_name": "Lightsey", "given_name": "E. Glenn", "clpid": "Lightsey-E-G" }, { "family_name": "Vourlidas", "given_name": "Angelos", "orcid": "0000-0002-8164-5948", "clpid": "Vourlidas-A" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Macdonald", "given_name": "Malcolm", "clpid": "Macdonald-M" } ], "abstract": "The Sun\u2013Earth L_5 Lagrange point is an ideal location for an operational space weather forecasting mission to provide early warning of Earth-directed solar storms (coronal mass ejections, shocks and associated solar energetic particles). Such storms can cause damage to power grids, spacecraft, communications systems and astronauts, but these effects can be mitigated if early warning is received. Space weather missions at L5 have been proposed using conventional spacecraft and chemical propulsion at costs of hundreds of millions of dollars. Here we describe a mission concept that could accomplish many of the goals at a much lower cost by dividing the payload among a cluster of interplanetary CubeSats that reach orbits around L5 using solar sails.", "doi": "10.1007/978-3-642-34907-2_19", "isbn": "978-3-642-34906-5", "publisher": "Springer", "publication_date": "2014-02-04", "pages": "269-288" } ]