Decadal timescale variability of the Enceladus plumes inferred from Cassini images

•The plumes decreased by a factor of ∼2 from 2005 to 2015.•Decadal trend roughly matches a decrease in eccentricity.•Interannual stochasic variability of plumes is likely.•Launch velocity is less at apocenter, greater at pericenter.•A secondary maximum occurs at 90 deg mean anomaly. The brightness o...

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description •The plumes decreased by a factor of ∼2 from 2005 to 2015.•Decadal trend roughly matches a decrease in eccentricity.•Interannual stochasic variability of plumes is likely.•Launch velocity is less at apocenter, greater at pericenter.•A secondary maximum occurs at 90 deg mean anomaly. The brightness of the Enceladus plumes varies with position in the satellite's eccentric orbit, with altitude above the surface, and with time from one year to the next. Hedman et al. (2013, hereinafter H13) were the first to report these variations. They used data from Cassini's Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS). Here we present brightness observations from Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS), which has 40 times higher spatial resolution than VIMS. Our unit of measure is slab density, the total mass of particles in a horizontal slab per unit thickness of the slab. Using slab density is one approach to correcting for the variation of brightness with wavelength and scattering angle. Approaches differ mainly by a multiplicative scaling factor that depends on particle density, which is uncertain. All approaches lead to the same qualitative conclusions and agree with the conclusions from VIMS. We summarize our conclusions as follows: At all altitudes between 50 and 200 km, the corrected brightness is 4–5 times greater when Enceladus is farther from Saturn (near apocenter) than when it is closer (near pericenter). A secondary maximum occurs after pericenter and before apocenter. Corrected brightness vs. altitude is best described as a power law whose negative exponent is greatest in magnitude at apocenter, indicating a slower launch speed for the particles at apocenter than at other points in the orbit. Corrected brightness decreased by roughly a factor of two during much of the period 2005–2015. The last is our principal result, and we offer three hypotheses to explain it. One is a long-period tide—the decreasing phase of an 11-year cycle in orbital eccentricity; another is buildup of ice at the throats of the vents; and the third is seasonal change—the end of summer at the south pole.
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