RPS-Powered OSHUN Mission to Saturn’s Icy Moon: Enceladus

The year is 2060. I am lead scientist and exobiologist for the RPS-powered astro-biological OSHUN Mission. Our mission sent the SHANGO processing probe 790.1 million miles away to the Saturnian moon, Enceladus. After 12 years, SHANGO reached Enceladus yesterday. It will first conduct a series of flybys to collect samples from Enceladus’ cryovolcanic geysers and then land on its southend surface. After landing, it will dispatch a rover, OLOKUN4 to explore the icy surface and a drill bot, OGUN6, that will drill about 30 miles into the ice to collect samples from Enceladus’ suspected subsurface ocean. We hope to find evidence of primitive bacterial or microbial life. We have some evidence that Enceladus’ core is gravitationally warmed and decades ago Cassini found that Enceladus has some of the building blocks for sustaining life in its geyser plumes. Our nuclear batteries have been instrumental in this mission. Enceladus is far from our sun and is one of the coldest darkest locations in our solar system, so harnessing the sun’s energy to power the mission has never been an option. We have planned multiple projects for the OSHUN mission on Enceladus for the next 50 years using our reliable and resilient nuclear power generation system. I have enjoyed math all my life and have a gift for calculating and understanding big and tiny numbers, this helps significantly on our mission because numbers in space can be exponentially big for distances and very tiny for calculations on a molecular level.