Abstract

The Visible InfraRed Thermal Imaging Spectrometer, VIRTIS onboard ESA’s Rosetta mission has completed two extensive mapping campaigns of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet nucleus in August-September 2014. After calibration and geometrical projection on nucleus shape model, VIRTIS data were processed to retrieve the distribution of several spectral indicators (spectral slopes, organic material band depths) from which compositional maps are built. Apart from being appropriate to map surface composition, those indicators allow us to correlate them with local morphological features (patches, boulders, scarps, terraces, active areas) and thermal properties

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