scholarly journals The Saturn Ring Skimmer Mission Concept: The next step to explore Saturn’s rings, atmosphere, interior and inner magnetosphere

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Tiscareno ◽  
Mar Vaquero ◽  
Matthew M. Hedman ◽  
Hao Cao ◽  
Paul R. Estrada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inner Magnetosphere ◽  
Saturn’S Rings ◽  
Saturn's Rings

Comments on collision mechanics in ring systems

1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 407-422
Author(s):  
William K. Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Asteroid Belt ◽  
Surface Erosion ◽  
Surface Layers ◽  
Ring Systems ◽  
Eclipse Observations ◽  
Saturn’S Rings ◽  
Saturn's Rings

ABSTRACTThe nature of collisions within ring systems is reviewed with emphasis on Saturn's rings. The particles may have coherent icy cores and less coherent granular or frosty surface layers, consistent with thermal eclipse observations. Present-day collisions of such ring particles do not cause catastrophic fragmentation of the particles, although some minor surface erosion and reaccretion is possible. Evolution by collisional fragmentation is thus not as important as in the asteroid belt.

Voyager UVS observations of stellar occultations by the rings of Saturn

1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 265-277
Author(s):  
J.B. Holbelg ◽  
W.T. Forrester
Keyword(s):  
Optical Depth ◽  
Distance Scale ◽  
Density Waves ◽  
Ring Density ◽  
Stellar Occultations ◽  
Saturn’S Rings ◽  
Saturn's Rings

ABSTRACTDuring the Voyager 1 and 2 Saturn encounters the ultraviolet spectrometers observed three separate stellar occultations by Saturn's rings. Together these three observations, which sampled the optical depth of the rings at resolutions from 3 to 6 km. can be used to establish a highly accurate distance scale allowing the identification of numerous ring features associated with resonances due to exterior satellites. Three separate observations of an eccentric ringlet near the location of the Titan apsidal resonance are discussed along with other ringlet-resonance associations occurring in the C ring. Density waves occurring in the A and B rings are reviewed and a detailed discussion of the analysis of one of these features is presented.

Profiling Saturn's rings by radio occultation

Icarus ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Essam A. Marouf ◽  
G. Leonard Tyler ◽  
Paul A. Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Radio Occultation ◽  
Saturn’S Rings ◽  
Saturn's Rings

Saturn's rings—A survey

Icarus ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.F. Cook ◽  
F.A. Franklin ◽  
F.D. Palluconi
Keyword(s):  
Saturn’S Rings ◽  
Saturn's Rings

Structure and evolution of Saturn's rings

Icarus ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry W. Esposito
Keyword(s):  
Saturn’S Rings ◽  
Saturn's Rings

Saturn's rings

Icarus ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignacio R. Ferrín
Keyword(s):  
Saturn’S Rings ◽  
Saturn's Rings
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