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Authors: Verbiscer Anne, French Richard, Showalter Mark, and Helfenstein Paul
%F: AA(Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA), AB(Department of Astronomy, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA), AC(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA), AD(Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA)
Title: Enceladus: Cosmic Graffiti Artist Caught in the Act
Abstract: As one of the most geologically active bodies in the solar system, Saturn's moon Enceladus not only coats itself with water ice particles, it accounts for the unusually high albedos of the other satellites orbiting within Saturn's vast, tenuous E ring. This effect is evident in Hubble Space Telescope observations obtained at true opposition on 13 and 14 January 2005 that reveal that the mean geometric albedos of satellites embedded within the E ring approximate or exceed unity.
Keywords: albedo, Enceladus, major, Saturn
Journal: Science
Volume: 315
Number: 59
Pages: 815
Year: 2007
Bibliogaphic Code: 2007Sci...315..815V

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