Shapes of the saturnian icy satellites and their significance

By P. Thomas, J. Burns, P. Helfenstein, S. Squyres, J. Veverka, C. Porco, E. Turtle, A. S. McEwen, T. Denk, Bernd Giese and 3 more. 2007

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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Enceladus's internal ocean and ice shell constrained from Cassini gravity, shape, and libration data (2016, background): “Based on the global shape data which show a topographic depression at the South Pole [Thomas et al., 2007], it has long been proposed that the liquid reservoir may be located only in the Southern Hemisphere [Collins and Goodman, 2007], thus explaining why the activity is concentrated around the…”
Iapetus’ geophysics : rotation rate, shape, and equatorial ridge (2007, background): “Cassini images show that Iapetus is an oblate spheroid with a difference between its equatorial, a, and polar radii, c, of 35.0 ± 3.7 km (Thomas et al., 2007) (see Fig.”
HOW THE GEYSERS, TIDAL STRESSES, AND THERMAL EMISSION ACROSS THE SOUTH POLAR TERRAIN OF ENCELADUS ARE RELATED (2014, result): “…(180◦ across) or smaller, perhaps only 120◦ across (Tobie et al. 2008), a result consistent with the suggestion (Collins & Goodman 2007) that a localized sea beneath the SPT produces the present-day ∼0.5 km topographic depression seen in Cassini ISS images (Porco et al. 2006; Thomas et al. 2007).”
Gravity and Topography of the Terrestrial Planets (2015, background): “…(Nimmo et al., 2003a,b; Nimmo et al., 2007), Iapetus (Giese et al., 2008), Mimas (Dermott and Thomas, 1988), Enceladus (Thomas et al., 2007), Tethys (Thomas et al., 2007), Dione (Thomas et al., 2007), Rhea (Thomas et al., 2007), and many of the irregularly shaped satellites of Saturn (Thomas,…”
Accretion of Saturn's mid-sized moons during the viscous spreading of young massive rings: Solving the paradox of silicate-poor rings versus silicate-rich moons (2011, background): “Shape data suggest that these moons still present a central concentration of material (Thomas et al., 2007; Thomas, 2010) characteristic of a partially differentiated structure, or, alternatively, of an internal gradient in porosity (e.g., Eluszkiewicz and LeliwaKopystynski, 1989).”