Enceladus- Gas Tori of Carbon-bearing and Nitrogen-bearing Molecules

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Dec 2008

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #P23B-1379

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5780 Tori And Exospheres, 6280 Saturnian Satellites

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The INMS instrument detected the presence of gas plumes during its passage over Enceladus' South Pole region on July 14, 2005. The neutral composition measurement showed that the atmospheric composition is characterized by 91±3% H2O, 3.2±0.6% CO2, 4±1% N2 or CO and 1.6±0.4% CH4. A lot of works have been done on modeling and analysis of the structure and evolution of the water gas cloud emitted from Enceladus. In comparison, not much attention has been given to the other gas components like CO2, CO (or N)2 and CH4 even though they represent all together about 15% of the atmospheric loss by mass of this icy satellite. In this work we will show preliminary models on the spatial distributions of the "parent molecules" and their "daughter molecules and atoms" created by photodissociation and other processes.

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