Backscattering from frost on icy satellites in the outer solar system

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Sep 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990natur.347..162v&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 347, Sept. 13, 1990, p. 162-164. Research supported by NASA.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Backscattering, Frost, Icy Satellites, Satellite Surfaces, Albedo, Astronomical Models, Astronomical Photometry, Gas Giant Planets, Regolith

Scientific paper

Two extreme models are presented of how frost and ice might be intermixed on a typical satellite surface: areal and intimate mixing. Applying such models to selected representative satellite data, it is found that the frost component of the surfaces of these outer satellites must itself be backscattering, unlike its terrestrial counterpart. The difference may arise because frost particles can have much more complex internal textures under the low-temperature and low-gravity conditions of the outer satellites than is the case on earth.

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