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Close-range remote sensing of Saturn’s rings during Cassini’s ring-grazing orbits and Grand Finale
Matthew Tiscareno
1
Philip Nicholson
2
Jeffrey Cuzzi
3
Linda Spilker
4
Carl Murray
5
Matthew Hedman
6
Joshua Colwell
7
Joseph Burns
8
Shawn Brooks
Roger Clark
Nicholas Cooper
9
Estelle Déau
4, 10
Cécile Ferrari
11
Gianrico Filacchione
12
Richard Jerousek
7
Stéphane Le Mouélic
13
Ryuji Morishima
10
Stu Pilorz
1
Sébastien Rodriguez
11
Mark Showalter
1
Sarah Badman
14
Emily Baker
15
Bonnie Buratti
4
Kevin Baines
4
Christophe Sotin
4
Matthew Tiscareno 1
Author
Philip Nicholson 2
Author
Jeffrey N Cuzzi 3
Author
Linda Spilker 4
Author
Cécile Ferrari 11
Author
Gianrico Filacchione 12
Author
Richard Jerousek 7
Author
Stéphane Le Mouélic 13
Author IdHAL : stephane-le-mouelic ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-1367
Christophe Sotin 4
Author
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SETI - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (Mountain View, CA 94043 - United States)
2
Department of Astronomy [Ithaca] (Space Sciences Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 - United States)
- Cornell University [New York] ( Ithaca, New York 14853 - United States)
3
ARC - NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, California 94035 - United States)
4
JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory (4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA - United States)
- NASA (www.nasa.gov - United States)
- CALTECH - California Institute of Technology (1200 East California Blvd, Pasadena, California 91125 - United States)
5
AU - Astronomy Unit [London] (School of Physics and Astronomy, QMUL, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS - United Kingdom)
- QMUL - Queen Mary University of London (Mile End Road, London E1 4NS - United Kingdom)
6
University of Idaho [Moscow, USA] (875 Perimeter Drive, Moscow, ID 83844 - United States)
7
UCF - University of Central Florida [Orlando] (4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816 - United States)
8
Cornell University [New York] ( Ithaca, New York 14853 - United States)
9
QMUL - Queen Mary University of London (Mile End Road, London E1 4NS - United Kingdom)
10
EPSS - Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences [Los Angeles] (Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 - United States)
- UCLA - University of California [Los Angeles] ( Los Angeles, Californie 90095 - United States)
- University of California (United States)
11
IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP, 1 rue Jussieu, 75238 Paris cedex 05 ; Université Paris Diderot, Bât. Lamarck A case postale 7011, 75205 Paris CEDEX 13 - France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
- IPG PARIS (France)
- UR - Université de La Réunion (15, avenue René Cassin - CS92003 -97744 Saint Denis Cedex 9 - Réunion)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7154 (France)
- UP - Université de Paris : UMR7154 (85 boulevard Saint-Germain 75006 Paris - France)
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IAPS - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF (Via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100 00133 Rome - Italy)
- INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (Viale del Parco Mellini 84, 00136 Roma - Italy)
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LPG - Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112] (2 Rue de la Houssinière - BP 92208 44322 NANTES CEDEX 3 - France)
- UA - Université d'Angers : UMR6112 (Université d'Angers - 40 Rue de Rennes, BP 73532 - 49035 Angers CEDEX 01 - France)
- Université de Nantes - Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques : UMR6112 (2, rue de la Houssinière - BP 92208 - 44322 Nantes cedex 3 - France)
- UN - Université de Nantes (1, quai de Tourville - BP 13522 - 44035 Nantes cedex 1 - France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers : UMR6112 (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR6112 (France)
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Lancaster University (Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YW - United Kingdom)
15
SSI - Space Science Institute [Boulder] (4750 Walnut St, Suite 205,
Boulder, CO 80301 - United States)
Abstract : Saturn's rings are an accessible exemplar of an astrophysical disk, tracing the Saturn system's dynamical processes and history. We present close-range remote-sensing observations of the main rings from the Cassini spacecraft. We find detailed sculpting of the rings by embedded masses, and banded texture belts throughout the rings. Saturn-orbiting streams of material impact the F ring. There are fine-scaled correlations among optical depth, spectral properties, and temperature in the B ring, but anticorrelations within strong density waves in the A ring. There is no spectral distinction between plateaux and the rest of the C ring, whereas the region outward of the Keeler gap is spectrally distinct from nearby regions. These results likely indicate that radial stratification of particle physical properties, rather than compositional differences, is responsible for producing these ring structures
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- DOI : 10.1126/science.aau1017
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Matthew Tiscareno, Philip Nicholson, Jeffrey Cuzzi, Linda Spilker, Carl Murray, et al.. Close-range remote sensing of Saturn’s rings during Cassini’s ring-grazing orbits and Grand Finale. Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019, 364 (6445), pp.eaau1017. ⟨10.1126/science.aau1017⟩. ⟨insu-02615445⟩
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