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Mimas: Photometric roughness and albedo map
- Source :
- Icarus. 99:63-69
- Publication Year :
- 1992
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1992.
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Abstract
- The backscattering phase function asssociated with bright icy satellites may render Hapke's (1986) isotropic approximation to multiple scattering inadequate. A reanalysis is accordingly conducted here of the Voyager observations of Mimas, using a modification to Hapke's equation that accommodates anisotropic multiple scattering, in order to characterize the physical and photometric properties of the heavily cratered icy surface. The roughness parameter of Mimas is in this way redefined, and an accurate albedo map is obtained which deminstrates small latitudinal and longitudinal albedo variations.
Details
- ISSN :
- 00191035
- Volume :
- 99
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Icarus
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a12dccfff4b823a2d9ba2f3e16fadb5f