Juno's close encounter with Ganymede—An overview

CJ Hansen, S Bolton, AH Sulaiman… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Juno spacecraft has been in orbit around Jupiter since 2016. Two flybys of Ganymede
were executed in 2021, opportunities realized by evolution of Juno's polar orbit over the …

The galilean satellites

AP Showman, R Malhotra - Science, 1999 - science.org
NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and improved Earth-based observing capabilities have
allowed major advances in our understanding of Jupiter's moons Io, Europa, Ganymede …

Imaging spectroscopy: Earth and planetary remote sensing with the USGS Tetracorder and expert systems

RN Clark, GA Swayze, KE Livo… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Imaging spectroscopy is a tool that can be used to spectrally identify and spatially map
materials based on their specific chemical bonds. Spectroscopic analysis requires …

Salts on Europa's surface detected by Galileo's near infrared mapping spectrometer

TB McCord, GB Hansen, FP Fanale, RW Carlson… - Science, 1998 - science.org
Reflectance spectra in the 1-to 2.5-micrometer wavelength region of the surface of Europa
obtained by Galileo's Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer exhibit distorted water absorption …

The composition of the Jovian atmosphere as determined by the Galileo probe mass spectrometer

HB Niemann, SK Atreya, GR Carignan… - Journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The Galileo probe mass spectrometer determined the composition of the Jovian atmosphere
for species with masses between 2 and 150 amu from 0.5 to 21.1 bars. This paper presents …

Thermal structure of Jupiter's atmosphere near the edge of a 5‐μm hot spot in the north equatorial belt

A Seiff, DB Kirk, TCD Knight, RE Young… - Journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal structure of the atmosphere of Jupiter was measured from 1029 km above to 133
km below the 1‐bar level during entry and descent of the Galileo probe. The data confirm the …

Hydrated salt minerals on Europa's surface from the Galileo near‐infrared mapping spectrometer (NIMS) investigation

TB McCord, GB Hansen, DL Matson… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
We reported evidence of heavily hydrated salt minerals present over large areas of Europa's
surface from analysis of reflectance spectra returned by the Galileo mission near infrared …

Hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Europa

RW Carlson, MS Anderson, RE Johnson, WD Smythe… - Science, 1999 - science.org
Spatially resolved infrared and ultraviolet wavelength spectra of Europa's leading, anti-
jovian quadrant observed from the Galileo spacecraft show absorption features resulting …

Non‐water‐ice constituents in the surface material of the icy Galilean satellites from the Galileo near‐infrared mapping spectrometer investigation

TB McCord, GB Hansen, RN Clark… - Journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
We present evidence for several non‐ice constituents in the surface material of the icy
Galilean satellites, using the reflectance spectra returned by the Galileo near infrared …

The surface composition of Iapetus: Mapping results from Cassini VIMS

RN Clark, DP Cruikshank, R Jaumann, RH Brown… - Icarus, 2012 - Elsevier
Cassini VIMS has obtained spatially resolved imaging spectroscopy data on numerous
satellites of Saturn. A very close fly-by of Iapetus on September 10, 2007 provided the best …