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Recent Ocean Worlds Research Publications

Day S. M. D., 2026. “How Did the Earth Get Its Oceans?” Fair Observer.

Nasralla, M., Laurent, H., Alderman, O. L. G., Dougan, L., (2025). “ Solution structure of Titan-relevant aqueous ammoniabyneutron diffraction”. Communications Chemistry, 8, Article number: 227

Zaman, M., McCarthy, C., Skarbek, R. M., Savage, H. M., & Hammond, N. P. (2025). “Oscillatory loading in ice friction experiments: Implications for tidally driven activity along the tiger stripes of Enceladus.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130

Ishan Mishra et al 2025 “An Assessment of Organics Detection and Characterization on the Surface of Europa with Infrared Spectroscopy”. Planet. Sci. J. 6 130

Howett C. J., G. M. Miles and L. C. Quick,  2025. "Constraining the Mass and Energy of Enceladus’ Dissipation Systems." Space Science Reviews 221 (5): 56, do: 10.1007/s11214-025-01181-7

Cartwright, R. J., Quick, L. C., Neveu, M., Becker, T. M., Raut, U., Castillo-Rogez, J., Craft, K. L., Villanueva, G. L., 2025. "Assessing Ocean World Habitability with HWO".  ArXiv, arXiv:2507.07128, doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.07128

Christopher R. Glein, Ngoc Truong, Phosphates reveal high pH ocean water on Enceladus, Icarus, Volum 441, 2025, 116717, ISSN 0019-1035, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116717.

Ewert, M., Nunn, B. L., Firth, E., & Junge, K., Metabolic Responses, Cell Recoverability, and Protein Signatures of Three Extremophiles: Sustained Life During Long-Term Subzero Incubations. Microorganisms (2025), 13(2), 251 

Gentilhomme, A. S., Dhakar, K., Timmins-Schiffman, E., Chaw, M., Firth, E., Junge, K., & Nunn, B. L., Proteomic Insights into Psychrophile Growth in Perchlorate-Amended Subzero Conditions: Implications for Martian Life Detection. Astrobiology (2025)

Vitkova, A., Vu, T. and Lambert, J., Extended Longevity Photoactivated Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the Detection of Biosignatures on Icy Worlds and Martian Polar Caps, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy (2025)

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