@article{397c861b785e45e6ba022fa18440a7cd,
title = "Close Cassini flybys of Saturn{\textquoteright}s ring moons Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Pandora, and Epimetheus",
abstract = "Saturn{\textquoteright}s main ring system is associated with a set of small moons that either are embedded within it or interact with the rings to alter their shape and composition. Five close flybys of the moons Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Pandora, and Epimetheus were performed between December 2016 and April 2017 during the ring-grazing orbits of the Cassini mission. Data on the moons{\textquoteright} morphology, structure, particle environment, and composition were returned, along with images in the ultraviolet and thermal infrared. We find that the optical properties of the moons{\textquoteright} surfaces are determined by two competing processes: contamination by a red material formed in Saturn{\textquoteright}s main ring system and accretion of bright icy particles or water vapor from volcanic plumes originating on the moon Enceladus.",
author = "Buratti, {B. J.} and Thomas, {P. C.} and E. Roussos and C. Howett and M. Sei{\ss} and Hendrix, {A. R.} and P. Helfenstein and Brown, {R. H.} and Clark, {R. N.} and T. Denk and G. Filacchione and H. Hoffmann and Jones, {G. H.} and N. Khawaja and P. Kollmann and N. Krupp and J. Lunine and Momary, {T. W.} and C. Paranicas and F. Postberg and M. Sachse and F. Spahn and J. Spencer and R. Srama and T. Albin and Baines, {K. H.} and M. Ciarniello and T. Economou and Hsu, {H. W.} and S. Kempf and Krimigis, {S. M.} and D. Mitchell and G. Moragas-Klostermeyer and Nicholson, {P. D.} and Porco, {C. C.} and H. Rosenberg and J. Simolka and Soderblom, {L. A.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors are grateful to the Cassini project engineers and staff for their dedicated service that led to the success of the final stages of the mission. This paper was funded by the Cassini Project. Part of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract to NASA. Also supported by Deutsches Zentrum f?r Luft- und Raumfahrt grants OH 1401 and 1503 and by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) grants Ho5720/1-1 and OH 1401 (M.Se., R.S., H.H., M.Sa., F.S., T.A., S.K., N.Kh., G.M.-K., F.P., and J.Si.), 50OH1501 (J.Si., G.M.-K., and T.A.), and 50OH1503 (T.D. and H.R.); the Italian Space Agency (G.F. and M.C.); and DFG projects PO 1015/2-1, /3-1, /4-1 and ERC Consolidator Grant 724908-Habitat OASIS (N.Kh. and F.P.). Publisher Copyright: 2017 {\textcopyright} The Authors",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1126/science.aat2349",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "364",
journal = "Science",
issn = "0036-8075",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science",
number = "6445",
}