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: unknown
• Published: American Astronomical Society 2018
• Subjects: methods: data analysis; planets and satellites: individual (Phoebe); planets and satellites: surfaces; Phoebe; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aac213

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....