The Case for a Return to Enceladus
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Orbital Sample Return
The one issue within seladus is time. Saturn is ten times further out than earth is o from the sun. Its massive distances, and that takes a while to traverse. Cassine took about seven years to get to the saturn system. Can imagine a sample return mission would be about double that. There is work under way for criogenic sample storage such that we could have that option.
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