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Stephan, K.; Jaumann, R.; Wagner, R.; Roatsch, T.; Brown, B.; Buratti, B. B.; Roger, C. N.; Nicholson, P. D.; Baines, K. H.
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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #P21B-0547
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2007
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During orbit DI 016 (October 2005) Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping
Spectrometer (VIMS) [1] acquired spatially resolved spectral data of the
Saturnian satellite Dione with pixel ground resolutions up to 2 km per
pixel. Additionally, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) [2] observed
the satellite synchronously to VIMS with pixel ground resolutions up to
15 m per pixel. Based on high resolution VIMS data we mapped the
chemical and physical properties across Dione's surface. In order to
study the relationships between the spectral characteristics of the
surface material and geological processes it is essential to relate the
spectral information to geological and geomorphological surface
features. Therefore we reprojected and mosaicked the resulting VIMS maps
[3] and registered them to the simultaneously acquired ISS images.
Resulting VIMS/ISS maps show pronounced spectral differences which can
be correlated with geological units and are found in the vicinity of
stratigraphically younger impact craters and tectonic features (troughs
and "wispy streaks") indicating exposed water ice from underneath.
Globally abundant cratered plains are well distinguishable from the
tectonically deformed regions and show the highest influence of dark
material [4]. Although ISS data indicate different subunits of the
cratered plains with respect to morphology and ages [5], these subunits
are indistinguishable in the VIMS data. In contrast their spectral
characteristics appear to be only related to hemispherical differences.
[1] Brown R.H. et al., SSR, 115, 111-168, 2004. [2] Porco C.C. et al.,
SSR, 115, 363-497, 2004. [3] Jaumann et al., PSS, 54, 1146-1155, 2006.
[4] Clark R.N. et al. (Icarus, in press). [5] Wagner R. et al., LPSC
XXXVII, abstract 1805.