Cassini VIMS at Saturn: The First 6 MonthsThe Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) is an imaging spectrometer on the Cassini spacecraft that covers the spectral range of 0.35 - 5.2 m in 352 spectral channels, a nominal instantaneous field of view of 0.5 mrad and an image format of 64 x 64 pixels. It has completed it s first 6 months in orbit around Saturn. During that time it has made extensive observations of Saturn s rings, it s icy satellites, in particular Phoeba and Iapetus, and had 1 distant and 2 close flybys of Titan.
Document ID
20050167034
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Brown, R. H. (Arizona Univ. Tucson, AZ, United States)
Baines, K. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Bellucci, G. (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Italy)
Buratti, B. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Capaccioni, F. (Geological Survey Denver, CO, United States)
Cerroni, P. (Geological Survey Denver, CO, United States)
Clark, R. N. (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Coradini, A. (Geological Survey Denver, CO, United States)
Cruikshank, D. (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon France)
Drossart, P. (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt Germany)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2005
Publication Information
Publication: Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVI, Part 2