Voyager photometry of surface features on Ganymede and Callisto

Details Voyager photometry of surface features on Ganymede and Callisto Voyager photometry of surface features on Ganymede and Callisto

May 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981icar...46..137s&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 46, May 1981, p. 137-155.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Astronomical Photometry, Callisto, Ganymede, Satellite Surfaces, Surface Properties, Voyager Project, Brightness, Craters, Reflectance, Scattering Functions, Spaceborne Astronomy, Terrain Analysis, Jupiter, Satellites, Ganymede, Callisto, Voyager, Photometry, Spectrum, Surface, Features, Imagery, Reflectance, Terrain, Craters, Grooves, Scattering, Comparisons, Brightness, Data, Intensity, Photopolarimeter, Longitude, Polar Regions, Maps

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Photometric properties of selected surface features on Ganymede and Callisto are studied, using Voyager images over phase angles from 10 to 124 deg, taken with a clear filter (effective wavelength of approximately 0.5 microns). Normal reflectances on Ganymede average 0.35 for the cratered terrain, and 0.44 for the grooved terrain; the ubiquitous cratered terrain on Callisto is 0.18. The photometric properties of these regions are described by a simple scattering function, where the function of the phase angle is qualitatively similar to that of the moon, i.e., concave upward. By contrast, bright craters on both satellites have functions of the phase angle which are concave downward. The scattering function is not Lambertian, and may be due to an admixture of a small amount of dark, opaque silicate grains with the frost deposits. The brightest craters on Callisto have reflectances which are 10% lower than the brightest craters on Ganymede, and both have similar scattering laws.

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