The temperature and width of an active fissure on Enceladus measured with Cassini VIMS during the 14 April 2012 South Pole flyover
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0019-1035/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2013.07.012 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Mail Stop 183-401, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, United States. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.D. Goguen). 1 On sabbatical at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during part of this work. Jay D. Goguen a,⇑, Bonnie J. Buratti , Robert H. Brown , Roger N. Clark , Phillip D. Nicholson , Matthew M. Hedman , Robert R. Howell , Christophe Sotin , Dale P. Cruikshank , Kevin H. Baines , Kenneth J. Lawrence , John R. Spencer , David G. Blackburn h
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