VIMS spectral mapping observations of Titan during the Cassini prime mission
Drossart, Pierre; Sotin, Christophe; Sicardy, Bruno; Barnes, Jason W.; Soderblom, Jason M.; Le Mouélic, Stéphane; Rodriguez, Sebastien; Baines, Kevin H.; Buratti, Bonnie J.; Clark, Roger N.; Nicholson, Phillip D.; McCord, Thomas B.; Brown, Robert H.; Bibring, Jean-Pierre; Langevin, Yves; Bellucci, Giancarlo; Soderblom, Laurence; Jaumann, Ralf; Cruikshank, Dale P.; Vixie, Graham; Cerroni, Priscilla; Tosi, Federico; Capaccioni, Fabrizio; Coradini, Angioletta; Matson, Dennis L.; Formisano, Vittorio; Stephan, Katrin; Nelson, Robert; Griffith, Caitlin; Penteado, Paulo; Pitman, Karly M.; Hayne, Paul
United States, Germany, France, Italy
Abstract
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.