Implications of using broadband photometry for compositional remote sensing of icy objects

Details Implications of using broadband photometry for compositional remote sensing of icy objects Implications of using broadband photometry for compositional remote sensing of icy objects

Feb 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982icar...49..244c&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 49, Feb. 1982, p. 244-257.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Astronomical Photometry, Broadband, Ice, Remote Sensing, Satellite Surfaces, Spectral Reflectance, Albedo, Asteroids, Colorimetry, Contaminants, Infrared Spectra, Minerals, Particle Size Distribution, Surface Properties, Planets, Water Ice, Photometry, Composition, Remote Sensing, Wavelengths, Absorption, Particles, Contamination, Reflectance, Experiments, Jupiter, Comparisons, Scattering, Colors, Mixing, Surface, Spectra, Minerals, Data, Grains, Size, Frost, Satellites, Icy Satellites, Saturn, Pluto, Uranu

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The validity and limitations of assuming bright surfaces are icy and dark surfaces are stony are investigated, and the limitations of JHK colorimetry for distinguishing icy versus stony objects are studied. The broadband JHK reflectances of a large range of minerals and mineral assemblages were computed, the visual albedo obtained, and the J-H and H-K colors computed. Visual reflectance was found to vary easily from 0.15 to 1.0 when the surface contains 99 percent or more water by weight. The effect of varying particulate weight fraction and grain size are described. Visual albedo is found to give no indication of the purity of an icy surface. The JHK colors of an ice and particulate mixture can fall anywhere in the classical J-H versus H-K diagram, and thus the diagram cannot be used to distinguish a predominantly rock surface from a predominantly ice one in a specific case, except where both J-H and H-K colors are less than about -0.2.

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