Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006dps....38.5615h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #56.15; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.1303
Physics
Optics
Scientific paper
In the context of the Cassini/Huygens mission, we performed supporting ground-based observations to complement the results from the NASA/ESA/ASI space mission to the Saturnian system with particular focus on Titan. On the nights of 18 and 19 December 2004, we conducted adaptive optics observations with VLT/NACO to search for and map the distribution of CO2 ice deposits on the spatially resolved surface of Titan (65 mas resolution). This experiment became possible because (i) solid CO2 possesses two narrow and strong absorption lines at 2012 nm and 2070 nm that fall into the 2.05 micron window of Titan's atmosphere, and (ii) the width of these bands match the bandpass of the Fabry-Perot instrument installed in NACO. We do not detect this chemical compound but we can derive firm limits on the abundance of CO2 ice on the surface of Titan at sub-Earth longitudes 284W and 307W. With a spatial sampling of 65 mas, we conclude that a partial surface coverage of segregated CO2 ice does not exceed 7% or 14% for bright or dark surface regions, respectively.
Coustenis Athena
Dumas Cédric
Hartung Markus
Herbst Thomas M.
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