The surface composition of Iapetus: Mapping results from Cassini VIMS

Icarus

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 831-860

  Clark, Roger N ^a   Cruikshank, Dale P ^b   Jaumann, Ralf ^c   Brown, Robert H ^d   Stephan, Katrin ^c   Dalle Ore, Cristina Morea ^b,h   Eric Livo, K ^a   Pearson, Neil ^a   Curchin, John M ^a   Hoefen, Todd M ^a   Buratti, Bonnie J ^e   Filacchione, Gianrico ^f   Baines, Kevin H ^e   Nicholson, Philip D ^g  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^g Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^h SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Iapetus; Ices, IR spectroscopy; Satellites, composition; Saturn, satellites; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862782798     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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