Cassini VIMS observations of the Galilean satellites including the VIMS calibration procedure
Thomas B. Mccord
(1)
,
Angioletta Coradini
(2)
,
C. A. Hibbitts
(3)
,
Fabrizio Capaccioni
(4)
,
Gary B. Hansen
(3)
,
Gianrico Filacchione
(4)
,
Roger N. Clark
(5)
,
Priscilla Cerroni
(4)
,
Robert H. Brown
(6)
,
Kevin H. Baines
(7)
,
Giancarlo Bellucci
(2)
,
Jean-Pierre Bibring
(8)
,
B. J. Buratti
(7)
,
E. Bussoletti
(9)
,
Michel Combes
(10, 11, 12)
,
Dale P. Cruikshank
(13)
,
Pierre Drossart
(11, 12)
,
Vittorio Formisano
(2)
,
Ralf Jaumann
(14)
,
Yves Langevin
(8)
,
Dennis L. Matson
(7)
,
Robert M. Nelson
(7)
,
Philip D. Nicholson
(15)
,
Bruno Sicardy
(11, 12)
,
Christophe Sotin
(16)
1
HIGP/SOEST, University of Hawaii
2 Istituto Fisica Spazio Interplanetario, INAF
3 Planetary Science Institute, 22 Fiddler's Rd., Winthrop
4 Istituto Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, CNR
5 US Geological Survey, Denver
6 LPL - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson]
7 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
8 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
9 INAF-OAC - INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte
10 DESPA - Departement de recherche SPAtiale
11 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
12 Pôle Planétologie du LESIA
13 NASA Ames Research Center, Astrophysics Branch, Moffett Field
14 Department of Planetary Exploration, DLR
15 Department of Astronomy, Cornell University
16 UN - Université de Nantes
2 Istituto Fisica Spazio Interplanetario, INAF
3 Planetary Science Institute, 22 Fiddler's Rd., Winthrop
4 Istituto Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, CNR
5 US Geological Survey, Denver
6 LPL - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson]
7 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
8 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
9 INAF-OAC - INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte
10 DESPA - Departement de recherche SPAtiale
11 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
12 Pôle Planétologie du LESIA
13 NASA Ames Research Center, Astrophysics Branch, Moffett Field
14 Department of Planetary Exploration, DLR
15 Department of Astronomy, Cornell University
16 UN - Université de Nantes
Résumé
The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) observed the Galilean satellites during the Cassini spacecraft's 2000/2001 flyby of Jupiter, providing compositional and thermal information about their surfaces. The Cassini spacecraft approached the jovian system no closer than about 126 Jupiter radii, about 9 million kilometers, at a phase angle of