VIMS spectral mapping observations of Titan during the Cassini prime mission

Jason Barnes (1) , Jason Soderblom (2) , Robert Brown (2) , Bonnie Buratti (3, 4) , Christophe Sotin (3, 4) , Kevin Baines (3, 4) , Roger Clark (5) , Ralf Jaumann (6) , Thomas Mccord (7) , Robert Nelson (3, 4) , Stéphane Le Mouélic (4) , Sebastien Rodriguez (8) , Caitlin Griffith (2) , Paulo Penteado (2) , Federico Tosi (9) , Karly Pitman (3, 4) , Laurence Soderblom , Katrin Stephan (6) , Paul Hayne , Graham Vixie (1) , Jean-Pierre Bibring (10) , Giancarlo Bellucci (11) , Fabrizio Capaccioni (11) , Priscilla Cerroni (11) , Angioletta Coradini (9) , Dale Cruikshank (12) , Pierre Drossart (13, 14) , Vittorio Formisano (11) , Yves Langevin (10) , Dennis Matson (3) , Phillip Nicholson (15) , Bruno Sicardy (13, 16, 14)

1 University of Idaho [Moscow, USA]
2 University of Arizona
3 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4 LPG - Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112]
5 PSI - Planetary Science Institute [Tucson]
6 Institute of Geological Sciences [Berlin]
7 Bear Fight Institute
8 AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
9 IFSI - Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario
10 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
11 IASF-Roma - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica
12 ARC - NASA Ames Research Center
13 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
14 Pôle Planétologie du LESIA
15 Cornell University [New York]
16 Pôle Astronomie du LESIA

This is a data paper designed to facilitate the use of and comparisons to Cassini/visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIMS) spectral mapping data of Saturn's moon Titan. We present thumbnail orthographic projections of flyby mosaics from each Titan encounter during the Cassini prime mission, 2004 July 1 through 2008 June 30. For each flyby we also describe the encounter geometry, and we discuss the studies that have previously been published using the VIMS dataset. The resulting compliation of metadata provides a complementary big-picture overview of the VIMS data in the public archive, and should be a useful reference for future Titan studies.

Domains: Physics [physics]; Astrophysics [astro-ph]; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]

Jason Barnes, Jason Soderblom, Robert Brown, Bonnie Buratti, Christophe Sotin, et al.. VIMS spectral mapping observations of Titan during the Cassini prime mission. Planetary and Space Science, 2009, 57 (14-15), pp.1950 - 1962. ⟨10.1016/j.pss.2009.04.013⟩. ⟨hal-03657680⟩