In-situ-analysis of ice particles in the solar system: applications, methods, instrument developement

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Frank Postberg
• Subject Area: Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry
• Term: from 2014 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 248585700

• Final Report Year: 2019

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Publications

• High-temperature water-rock interactions and hydrothermal environments in the chondrite-like core of Enceladus. Nature Communications, Vol. 6. 2015, Article number: 8604.
  Sekine, Yasuhito; Shibuya, Takazo; Postberg, Frank; Hsu, Hsiang-Wen; Suzuki, Katsuhiko; Masaki, Yuka; Kuwatani, Tatsu; Mori, Megumi; Hong, Peng K.; Yoshizaki, Motoko; Tachibana, Shogo & Sirono, Sin-iti
  
• Enceladus Life Finder: The Search for Life in a Habitable Moon. IEEE Aerospace Conference, 5-12 March 2016, ISBN 978-1-4673-7676-1.
  Reh, Kim; Spilker, Linda; Lunine, Jonathan I.; Waite, J. Hunter; Cable, Morgan L.; Postberg, Frank & Clark, Karla
  
• Flux and composition of interstellar dust at Saturn from Cassini’s Cosmic Dust Analyzer. Science, Vol. 352. 2016, Issue 6283, pp. 312-318.
  Altobelli, N.; Postberg, F.; Fiege, K.; Trieloff, M.; Kimura, H.; Sterken, V. J.; Hsu, H.-W.; Hillier, J.; Khawaja, N.; Moragas-Klostermeyer, G.; Blum, J.; Burton, M.; Srama, R.; Kempf, S. & Gruen, E.
  
• Powering prolonged hydrothermal activity inside Enceladus. Nature Astronomy, Vol. 1. 2017, pp. 841–847.
  Choblet, Gaël; Tobie, Gabriel; Sotin, Christophe; Běhounková, Marie; Čadek, Ondřej; Postberg, Frank & Souček, Ondřej
  
• Impact ionisation mass spectrometry of platinum-coated olivine and magnesitedominated cosmic dust analogues. Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 156. 2018, pp. 96-110.
  Hillier, Jon K.; Sternovsky, Z.; Kempf, S.; Trieloff, M.; Guglielmino, M.; Postberg, F. & Price, M.C.
  
• In situ collection of dust grains falling from Saturn’s rings into its atmosphere. Science, Vol. 362. 2018, Issue 6410, eaat3185.
  Hsu, Hsiang-Wen; Schmidt, Jürgen; Kempf, Sascha; Postberg, Frank; Moragas-Klostermeyer, Georg; Seiß, Martin; Hoffmann, Holger; Burton, Marcia; Ye, ShengYi; Kurth, William S.; Horányi, Mihály; Khawaja, Nozair; Spahn, Frank; Schirdewahn, Daniel; O’Donoghue, James; Moore, Luke; Cuzzi, Jeff; Jones, Geraint H. & Srama, Ralf
  
• Analogue Spectra for Impact Ionization Mass Spectra of Water Ice Grains Obtained at Different Impact Speeds in Space. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, Vol. 33. 2019, Issue 22, pp. 1751-1760.
  Klenner, Fabian; Postberg, Frank; Hillier, Jon; Khawaja, Nozair; Reviol, René; Srama, Ralf; Abel, Bernd; Stolz, Ferdinand & Kempf, Sascha
  
• Low-mass nitrogen-, oxygen-bearing and aromatic compounds in Enceladean ice grains. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 489. 2019, Issue 4, pp. 5231–5243.
  Khawaja, N.; Postberg, F.; Hillier, J.; Klenner, F.; Kempf, S.; Nölle, L.; Reviol, R.; Zou, Z. & Srama, R.