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Callisto from JWST: CO2-rich Terrain on the Leading Hemisphere and Global Patterns of H2O Ice

  • Authors: Maria Camarca, Katherine de Kleer, Richard J. Cartwright, Geronimo L. Villanueva, Bryan J. Holler, Zachariah Milby, Kevin P. Hand, Lorenz Roth

Maria Camarca et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

A detection of CO2 gas on the Valhalla-centered observation using JWST. Left panel: A slice of the disk-integrated NIRSpec spectrum containing the 4.25 µm absorption feature (black). This absorption feature is dominated by solid-phase CO2 to which a continuum was fit (red). The subtraction of the continuum from the data reveals the much weaker gas-phase signal (black, bottom). The fit of the CO2 gas-phase model is shown in orange. Right panel: The column density of CO2 gas across Callisto’s disk.

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