Enceladus: An active ice world in the Saturn system

JR Spencer, F Nimmo - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Enceladus, one of the mid-sized icy moons of Saturn, has an importance to planetary
science far greater than its modest 504-km diameter would suggest. Intensive exploration of …

Characterization of the surfaces and near-surface atmospheres of Ganymede, Europa and Callisto by JUICE

F Tosi, T Roatsch, A Galli, E Hauber, A Lucchetti… - Space science …, 2024 - Springer
We present the state of the art on the study of surfaces and tenuous atmospheres of the icy
Galilean satellites Ganymede, Europa and Callisto, from past and ongoing space …

The surface composition of Iapetus: Mapping results from Cassini VIMS

RN Clark, DP Cruikshank, R Jaumann, RH Brown… - Icarus, 2012 - Elsevier
Cassini VIMS has obtained spatially resolved imaging spectroscopy data on numerous
satellites of Saturn. A very close fly-by of Iapetus on September 10, 2007 provided the best …

How the Enceladus dust plume feeds Saturn's E ring

S Kempf, U Beckmann, J Schmidt - Icarus, 2010 - Elsevier
Pre-Cassini models of Saturn's E ring [Horányi, M., Burns, J., Hamilton, D., 1992. Icarus 97,
248–259; Juhász, A., Horányi, M., 2002. J. Geophys. Res. 107, 1–10] failed to reproduce its …

Thermal inertia and bolometric Bond albedo values for Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Iapetus as derived from Cassini/CIRS measurements

CJA Howett, JR Spencer, J Pearl, M Segura - Icarus, 2010 - Elsevier
Spectra taken by Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) between 10 and
600cm− 1 (17–1000μm) of surface thermal emission of Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione …

Plasma, plumes and rings: Saturn system dynamics as recorded in global color patterns on its midsize icy satellites

P Schenk, DP Hamilton, RE Johnson, WB McKinnon… - Icarus, 2011 - Elsevier
New global maps of the five inner midsize icy saturnian satellites, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys,
Dione, and Rhea, have been constructed in three colors (UV, Green and near-IR) at …

Compositional mapping of Saturn's satellite Dione with Cassini VIMS and implications of dark material in the Saturn system

RN Clark, JM Curchin, R Jaumann, DP Cruikshank… - Icarus, 2008 - Elsevier
Cassini VIMS has obtained spatially resolved imaging spectroscopy data on numerous
satellites of Saturn. A very close fly-by of Dione provided key information for solving the …

Enceladus: An active cryovolcanic satellite

JR Spencer, AC Barr, LW Esposito… - Saturn from Cassini …, 2009 - Springer
Enceladus is one of the most remarkable satellites in the solar system, as revealed by
Cassini's detection of active plumes erupting from warm fractures near its south pole. This …

Resolved spectrophotometric properties of the Ceres surface from Dawn Framing Camera images

SE Schröder, S Mottola, U Carsenty, M Ciarniello… - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a global spectrophotometric characterization of the Ceres surface using Dawn
Framing Camera (FC) images. We identify the photometric model that yields the best results …

Saturn's icy satellites and rings investigated by Cassini–VIMS: III–Radial compositional variability

G Filacchione, F Capaccioni, M Ciarniello, RN Clark… - Icarus, 2012 - Elsevier
In the last few years Cassini–VIMS, the Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, returned
to us a comprehensive view of the Saturn's icy satellites and rings. After having analyzed the …