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Phobos observations by the OMEGA/Mars Express hyperspectral imager

Phobos observations by the OMEGA/Mars Express hyperspectral imager

Publication date: 10 March 2008

Authors: Gondet, B. et al.

Journal: 39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Year: 2008

Abstract No. 1832

As a complement to Mars observations, Phobos spectral imaging was implemented in order to acquired compositional mapping with the prime objective to answer to the following questions:

  1. Is Phobos a "primitive" (undifferentiated) body, or is its mass sufficient for this small body to have suffered some degree of internal differentiation, so as to exhibit surface compositional variations reflecting variation with depth?
  2. Can one detect surface material containing either volatile or organic compounds ?
We will present an overview of the results acquired, and discuss them in terms of planetary differentiation.

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