Saturn's icy satellites investigated by Cassini-VIMS. I. Full-disk properties: 350-5100 nm reflectance spectra and phase curves

Icarus

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 259-290

  Filacchione, G ^a   Capaccioni, F ^a   McCord, T B ^b,c   Coradini, A ^a,d   Cerroni, P ^a   Bellucci, G ^d   Tosi, F ^d   D'Aversa, E ^d   Formisano, V ^d   Brown, R H ^e   Baines, K H ^f   Bibring, J P ^g   Buratti, B J ^f   Clark, R N ^h   Combes, M ^j   Cruikshank, D P ⁱ   Drossart, P ^j   Jaumann, R ^k   Langevin, Y ^g   Matson, D L ^f   Mennella, V ^l   Nelson, R M ^f   Nicholson, P D ^m   Sicardy, B ^j   Sotin, C ⁿ   Hansen, G ^c   Hibbitts, K ^c   Showalter, M ^o   Newman, S ^f   more..

^a INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^b Bear Fight Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d INAF   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^h DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^j OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^k GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^l INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAPODIMONTE   (Italy)

^m Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^o Stanford University   (United States)

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Author keywords

Image processing; Infrared observations; satellites; Saturn; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845211972     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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