Spatial distribution of ice blocks on Enceladus and implications for their origin and emplacement

• Published in: Icarus
• Main Authors: Martens, H. R., Ingersoll, A. P., Ewald, S. P., Helfenstein, P., Giese, B.
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2015
• Subjects: Planetengeodäsie; South Pole; Stripe; South pole
• Online Access: http://elib.dlr.de/101675/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2014.09.035

We have mapped the locations of over 100,000 ice blocks across the south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, thus generating the first quantitative estimates of ice-block number density distribution in relation to major geological features. Ice blocks were manually identified and mapped from tw...