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The pH of Enceladus' ocean

Glein, Christopher R.; Waite, J. Hunter; Baross, John A.

Saturn's moon, Enceladus, is a geologically active waterworld. The prevailing paradigm is that there is a subsurface ocean that erupts to the surface, which leads to the formation of a plume of vapor and ice above the south polar region. The chemistry of the ocean is just beginning to be understood, but is of profound geochemical and astrobiologic…