Phoebe: A Surface Dominated by Water

• Published in: The Astronomical Journal
• Main Authors: Fraser, Wesley C., Brown, Michael E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Astronomical Society 2018
• Subjects: Phoebe; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/87784/; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/87784/1/Fraser_2018_AJ_156_23.pdf; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/87784/2/1803.04979; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180711-161846296

The Saturnian irregular satellite, Phoebe, can be broadly described as a water-rich rock. This object, which presumably originated from the same primordial population shared by the dynamically excited Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), has received high-resolution spectral imaging during the Cassini flyby....