Sputter-produced plasma as a measure of satellite surface composition - The Cassini mission

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Sep 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990georl..17.1629j&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 17, Sept. 1990, p. 1629-1632.

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Plasma Clouds, Satellite Surfaces, Saturn Satellites, Sputtering, Abundance, Reflectance

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Measurements of the co-orbiting neutral cloud or the plasma produced by sputtering of the icy Saturnian satellites can be used to determine the relative abundance of a minority surface species which would be difficult to determine from reflectance spectra. This is due to the fact that the sputter source rates, hence the plasma supply rates, are directly proportional to the bulk concentrations of mixed solids or clathrates, although the surface grains may be depleted in the most volatile species.

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