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Nov 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998icar..136..104e&link_type=abstract
Icarus, Volume 136, Issue 1, pp. 104-123.
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We present and use a new rough-surface thermal model to aid in the analysis of new mid-infrared spectral measurements of Mercury from 5-12.5 mum. The model calculates spatially resolved thermal emission from slowly rotating, airless bodies. The Mercury data contain the first spectral measurements of Mercury between 5-7.5 mum, a region not accessible from ground-based telescopes, and are also the first observations of Mercury to be made while flying on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO). They were obtained with the High- efficiency Infrared Faint Object Grating Spectrometer (HIFOGS). Our rough surface thermal model which best fit the KAO data has a Hapke theta of 20 deg. A strong 5-μm emission feature was present during both observing periods. We suggest the 5-μm excess may be a result of near surface thermal gradients in regolith materials with a 30 to 100-μm grainsize, but cannot entirely rule out an observational artifact resulting from our instrumentation or the telescope on the KAO. Other features in the spectra are consistent with a feldspathic and feldspathoidal surface composition.
Colwell Joshua E.
Emery Joshua P.
Kozlowski Richard W. H.
Sprague Ann L.
Witteborn Fred. C.
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