Context Camera Investigation on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
[1] The Context Camera (CTX) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a Facility Instrument (i.e., government-furnished equipment operated by a science team not responsible for design and…
Cassini Observes the Active South Pole of Enceladus
- C. Porco, P. Helfenstein, S. Squyres
- Geology, PhysicsScience
- 10 March 2006
The shape of Enceladus suggests a possible intense heating epoch in the past by capture into a 1:4 secondary spin/orbit resonance.
Impact excavation on Asteroid 4 Vesta: Hubble Space Telescope results
Hubble Space Telescope images of asteroid 4 Vesta obtained during the favorable 1996 apparition show an impact crater 460 kilometers in diameter near the south pole. Color measurements within the…
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Instrument Overview
- M. Robinson, S. Brylow, H. Hiesinger
- Physics
- 11 March 2010
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Wide Angle Camera (WAC) and Narrow Angle Cameras (NACs) are on the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The WAC is a 7-color push-frame camera (100…
Differentiation of the asteroid Ceres as revealed by its shape
C Ceres has a shape and smoothness indicative of a gravitationally relaxed object that is significantly less flattened than that expected for a homogeneous object, but is consistent with a central mass concentration indicative of differentiation.
Sizes, shapes, and derived properties of the saturnian satellites after the Cassini nominal mission
- P. Thomas
- Physics
- 1 July 2010
Cassini Imaging of Jupiter's Atmosphere, Satellites, and Rings
- C. Porco, R. West, A. Vasavada
- Physics, GeologyScience
- 7 March 2003
Findings on Jupiter's zonal winds, convective storms, low-latitude upper troposphere, polar stratosphere, and northern aurora are reported, including previously unseen emissions arising from Io and Europa in eclipse, and a giant volcanic plume over Io's north pole are described.
Cassini Imaging Science: Instrument Characteristics And Anticipated Scientific Investigations At Saturn
The Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) is the highest-resolution two-dimensional imaging device on the Cassini Orbiter and has been designed for investigations of the bodies and phenomena found…
Report of the IAU/IAG Working Group on cartographic coordinates and rotational elements: 2006
- P. Seidelmann, B. Archinal, I. Williams
- Physics, Geology
- 3 July 2007
Every three years the IAU/IAG Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements revises tables giving the directions of the poles of rotation and the prime meridians of the planets,…
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