Saturn's icy satellites investigated by Cassini-VIMS. II. Results at the end of nominal mission

Icarus

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 507-523

  Filacchione, G ^a   Capaccioni, F ^a   Clark, R N ^b   Cuzzi, J N ^c   Cruikshank, D P ^c   Coradini, A ^d   Cerroni, P ^a   Nicholson, P D ^e   McCord, T B ^f   Brown, R H ^g   Buratti, B J ^h   Tosi, F ^d   Nelson, R M ^h   Jaumann, R ⁱ   Stephan, K ⁱ  

^a INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d INAF   (Italy)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^f Bear Fight Center   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ices, IR spectroscopy; Image processing; Infrared observations; Saturn, Satellites; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649233224     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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