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The Saturn System's Icy Satellites: New Results from CassiniCassini-Huygens is a multidisciplinary, international planetary mission consisting of an orbiting spacecraft and a probe. The Huygens probe successfully landed on Titan's surface on January 14, 2005, while the orbiter has performed observations of Saturn, its rings, satellites, and magnetosphere since it entered orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004. The Cassini mission has been prolific in its scientific discoveries about the Saturn system. In this special section, we present new mission results with a focus on the 'icy satellites,' which we define as all Saturn's moons with the exception of Titan. The results included in this section have come out of the Cassini SOST--Satellites Orbiter Science Team--a multi-instrument and multidiscipline group that works together to better understand the icy satellites and their interactions with Saturn and its rings. Other papers included in this issue present ground-based observations and interior modeling of these icy moons.
Document ID
20090031889
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Lopes-Gautier, Rosaly M.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Buratti, Bonnie
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Hendrix, A. R.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
February 2, 2008
Publication Information
Publication: Icarus
Publisher: Elsevier, Inc.
Volume: 193
Issue: 2
ISSN: 0019-1035
Subject Category
Space Sciences (General)
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Cassini
satellites

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