Comparison of variations in ice particle sizes across Callisto's and Ganymede's surface

Details Comparison of variations in ice particle sizes across Callisto's and Ganymede's surface Comparison of variations in ice particle sizes across Callisto's and Ganymede's surface

Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf..922s&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.922

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Ganymede's polar caps are visible in the Galileo SSI images. In contrast, Callisto does not show any hint of polar caps at visible wavelengths. In comparison to Callisto no changes in the ice particle size on Ganymede can be exclusively associated to the existence of its polar caps i.e. a sharp border between relatively large particle sizes in the equatorial region where sputtering and sublimation are the dominating processes and relatively small ice particles either freshly deposited and/or irradiated by magnetospheric particles in the polar regions where the magnetic field lines are open.

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