Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985icar...61..208b&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 61, Feb. 1985, p. 208-217.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Albedo, Environment Models, Ice Environments, Icy Satellites, Light Scattering, Radiative Transfer, Satellite Surfaces, Brightness, Enceladus, Europa, Mimas, Rhea (Astronomy), Spaceborne Photography, Voyager Project, Planets, Satellites, Icy Bodies, Radiative Transfer, Brightness, Models, Voyager Missions, Imagery, Observations, Jupiter, Europa, Mimas, Enceladus, Saturn, Comparisons, Scattering, Albedo, Porosity, Optical Properties, Regolith, Surface, Features, Texture, Particles, Phases, Calculations
Scientific paper
A radiative transfer model, derived largely from the work of B. W. Hapke (1981) and J. D. Goguen (1981) is fit to Voyager imaging observations of Europa, Mimas, Enceladus, and Rhea. It is possible to place constraints on the single-scattering albedo, the porosity of the optically active upper regolith, the single-particle phase function, and, in the cases of Europa and Mimas, the mean slope angle of macroscopic surface features. The texture of the surfaces of the Saturnian satellites appears to be similar to the Earth's moon. However, Europa is found to have a distinctly more compact regolith and a more forward-scattering single-particle phase function.
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