1. Possible detection of hydrazine on Saturn's moon Rhea.
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Elowitz, Mark, Sivaraman, Bhalamurugan, Hendrix, Amanda, Jen-Iu Lo, Sheng-Lung Chou, Bing-Ming Cheng, Sekhar, B. N. Raja, and Mason, Nigel J.
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SCIENCE conferences , *HYDRAZINE , *SMALL solar system bodies , *PHYSICAL sciences , *MOLECULAR physics , *ASTROCHEMISTRY , *TITAN (Satellite) - Abstract
The article presents analysis of far-ultraviolet reflectance spectra of regions on Rhea's leading and trailing hemispheres collected by the Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph during targeted flybys. It mentions that Hydrazine, used as a propellant in Cassini's thrusters, but the thrusters, not used during icy satellite flybys.
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- 2021
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