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| Title |
Macromolecular organic compounds from the depths of Enceladus
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| Published in |
Nature, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.1038/s41586-018-0246-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Frank Postberg, Nozair Khawaja, Bernd Abel, Gael Choblet, Christopher R. Glein, Murthy S. Gudipati, Bryana L. Henderson, Hsiang-Wen Hsu, Sascha Kempf, Fabian Klenner, Georg Moragas-Klostermeyer, Brian Magee, Lenz Nölle, Mark Perry, René Reviol, Jürgen Schmidt, Ralf Srama, Ferdinand Stolz, Gabriel Tobie, Mario Trieloff, J. Hunter Waite |
| Abstract |
Saturn's moon Enceladus harbours a global water ocean 1 , which lies under an ice crust and above a rocky core 2 . Through warm cracks in the crust 3 a cryo-volcanic plume ejects ice grains and vapour into space4-7 that contain materials originating from the ocean8,9. Hydrothermal activity is suspected to occur deep inside the porous core10-12, powered by tidal dissipation 13 . So far, only simple organic compounds with molecular masses mostly below 50 atomic mass units have been observed in plume material6,14,15. Here we report observations of emitted ice grains containing concentrated and complex macromolecular organic material with molecular masses above 200 atomic mass units. The data constrain the macromolecular structure of organics detected in the ice grains and suggest the presence of a thin organic-rich film on top of the oceanic water table, where organic nucleation cores generated by the bursting of bubbles allow the probing of Enceladus' organic inventory in enhanced concentrations. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 503 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 74 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 39 | 8% |
| Spain | 21 | 4% |
| France | 13 | 3% |
| Mexico | 13 | 3% |
| India | 10 | 2% |
| Brazil | 8 | 2% |
| Italy | 8 | 2% |
| Japan | 8 | 2% |
| Other | 74 | 15% |
| Unknown | 235 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 371 | 74% |
| Scientists | 109 | 22% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 15 | 3% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 314 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 314 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 63 | 20% |
| Researcher | 52 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 36 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 35 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 4% |
| Other | 33 | 11% |
| Unknown | 82 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 68 | 22% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 38 | 12% |
| Chemistry | 30 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 24 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 22 | 7% |
| Other | 36 | 11% |
| Unknown | 96 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1539. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 January 2024.
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