Cassini VIMS observations of the Galilean satellites including the VIMS calibration procedure
Icarus
By: T. B. McCord, A. Coradini, C. A. Hibbitts, F. Capaccioni, G. B. Hansen, G. Filacchione, R. N. Clark, P. Cerroni, R. H. Brown, K. H. Baines, G. Bellucci, J.-P. Bibring, B. J. Buratti, E. Bussoletti, M. Combes, D. P. Cruikshank, P. Drossart, V. Formisano, R. Jaumann, Y. Langevin, D. L. Matson, R.M. Nelson, P. D. Nicholson, B. Sicardy, and Christophe Sotin
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Abstract
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 < 90 ??, resulting in only sub-pixel observations by VIMS of the Galilean satellites. Nevertheless, most of the spectral features discovered by the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) aboard the Galileo spacecraft during more than four years of observations have been identified in the VIMS data analyzed so far, including a possible 13C absorption. In addition, VIMS made observations in the visible part of the spectrum and at several new phase angles for all the Galilean satellites and the calculated phase functions are presented. In the process of analyzing these data, the VIMS radiometric and spectral calibrations were better determined in preparation for entry into the Saturn system. Treatment of these data is presented as an example of the VIMS data reduction, calibration and analysis process and a detailed explanation is given of the calibration process applied to the Jupiter data. ?? 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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McCord, T.B., Coradini, A., Hibbitts, C.A., Capaccioni, F., Hansen, G.B., Filacchione, G., Clark, R.N., Cerroni, P., Brown, R.H., Baines, K.H., Bellucci, G., Bibring, J., Buratti, B.J., Bussoletti, E., Combes, M., Cruikshank, D.P., Drossart, P., Formisano, V., Jaumann, R., Langevin, Y., Matson, D.L., Nelson, R., Nicholson, P.D., Sicardy, B., Sotin, C., 2004, Cassini VIMS observations of the Galilean satellites including the VIMS calibration procedure: Icarus, v. 172, no. 1 SPEC.ISS., p. 104-126, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2004.07.001.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Cassini VIMS observations of the Galilean satellites including the VIMS calibration procedure |
| Series title | Icarus |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.07.001 |
| Volume | 172 |
| Issue | 1 SPEC.ISS. |
| Year Published | 2004 |
| Language | English |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Icarus |
| First page | 104 |
| Last page | 126 |