Iapetus: Unique surface properties and a global color dichotomy from cassini imaging

Science

Volumn 327, Issue 5964, 2010, Pages 435-439

  Denk, Tilmann ^a   Neukum, Gerhard ^a   Roatsch, Thomas ^b   Porco, Carolyn C ^c   Burns, Joseph A ^d   Galuba, Götz G ^a   Schmedemann, Nico ^a   Helfenstein, Paul ^d   Thomas, Peter C ^d   Wagner, Roland J ^b   West, Robert A ^e  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c Center for Exoplanetary Systems   (United States)

^d Space Sciences Building ^*  (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; WATER;

ALBEDO; COLOR; CRATER; ICE DRIFT; LAND SURFACE; PLANETARY SATELLITE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATURN; SPACECRAFT; SUBLIMATION;

ALBEDO; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR VISION; DARKNESS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATERIAL STATE; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; COLOR; MICROCLIMATE;

COLOR; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; SATURN; SPACECRAFT; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 75649106837     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1177088     Document Type: Article

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