Experimental study of IR-signature of water ices between 1 and 2.5 µm : a thermal probe for icy moons

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[5422] Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets / Ices, [5464] Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets / Remote Sensing, [6280] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Saturnian Satellites

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Near IR signatures of water ices are known to depend on temperature and grain size, a property that could be used to constrain the surface characteristics of icy moons1,2,3. Models indicate that the 1.65 µm absorption band depends strongly on temperature2,4,5 and on grain size. Other bands (1.03, 1.27, 1.50 and 2 µm) show a strong dependence with grain size (e.g. (6) for the 1.03 µm band). But the respective influence of temperature and grain size is still not fully understood. In this work, we focus on the 1.50 and 1.55 µm absorption bands. Characteristics of near-IR spectra of pure ice Ih grains have been experimentally investigated using temperature and pressure ranges relevant for icy moons. Nineteen experiments have been conducted both at microscopic (individual grains smaller than 100 mm) and macroscopic (grains ranging from 200 to 800 µm) scales, using a FTIR spectrometer. Position, area and depth of the four main absorption bands in the near-IR domain (1.50, 1.55, 1.65 and 2 µm) have been studied . It will be shown that the positions of the 1.50 µm and the 1.55 µm bands are very good indicators of grain size and of temperature, respectively (Fig.1). The scaling laws established from experimental data can be used to characterize the surface properties of icy moons. Preliminary tests are conducted on extensively studied regions to validate the approach. An application to the Tiger Stripes on Enceladus will be presented. The estimated temperatures are at first order consistent with those obtained by CIRS7, but they still appear slightly higher in average (between 10 and 20 K). Grain size are also bigger than in a previous model8 but the same tendency is observed, i.e., the grain size is larger on the Tiger Stripes than in the surroundings. Ref. : 1-Fink and Larson, Icarus, 1975. 2-Leto et al. Mem. S.A.It. Suppl. 2005. 3-Grundy, Icarus, 1999. 4-Grundy and Schmitt, JGR. 1998. 5-Mastrapa et al. Icarus, 2008. 6-Nolin and Dozier Rem. Sens. Environ. 2000. 7-Abramov and Spencer, Icarus 2009. 8-Jaumann et al. Icarus, 2007. Figure 1: a) Position of the 1.55 µm band versus temperature for ice (black) and frost (red). For each temperature a dispersion of 10 - 20 cm-1 is observed due to the grain size variations from 200 to 800 µm. b) Position of the 1.50 µm band relative to the grain size at microscopic (black) and macroscopic (red) scales. The grain size of macroscopic samples is estimated using the Nolin and Dozier’s method (6).

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