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An Evolving View of Saturn's Dynamic Rings
J. N. Cuzzi
1, *
J. A. Burns
2
S. Charnoz
3
R. N. Clark
4
J. E. Colwell
5
L. Dones
6
L. W. Esposito
7
G. Filacchione
8
R. G. French
9
M. M. Hedman
2
S. Kempf
10
E. A. Marouf
11
C. D. Murray
12
P. D. Nicholson
2
C. C. Porco
13
Julien Schmidt
14
M. R. Showalter
15
L. J. Spilker
16
J. N. Spitale
13
R. Srama
10
M. Sremčević
7
M. S. Tiscareno
2
J. Weiss
13, 17
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Corresponding author
1
ARC - NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, California 94035 - 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
AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM - UMR 7158 - UMR E 9005,
ex "Astrophysique Interactions Multi-échelles",
Service d'astrophysique,
CEA/Saclay,
Orme des Merisiers
F-91191 GIF SUR YVETTE CEDEX - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR_7158 (France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
- CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives : UMR_E_9005 (Centre de Saclay Centre de Grenoble Centre de Cadarache etc - France)
- UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 : UMR_7158 (5 rue Thomas-Mann - 75205 Paris cedex 13 - France)
4
US Geological Survey [Denver] (MS 974, Denver, CO 80225 - United States)
- USGS - United States Geological Survey [Reston] (12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia 20192 - United States)
5
UCF | Physics - Department of Physics [Orlando] (University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL 32816, United States - United States)
- UCF - University of Central Florida [Orlando] (4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816 - United States)
6
Department of Space Studies [Boulder] (United States)
- SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [Boulder] (1050 Walnut St, Suite 300, Boulder, CO 80302 - United States)
7
LASP - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder] (1234 Innovation Drive, Boulder, CO 80303-7814 - United States)
- University of Colorado [Boulder] (Boulder, Colorado 80309 - United States)
8
IASF-Roma - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Roma (Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100 00133 Roma - Italy)
- INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (Viale del Parco Mellini 84, 00136 Roma - Italy)
9
Astronomy Department [Wellesley] (Whitin Observatory, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481, United States - United States)
- Wellesley College (106 Central Street – Wellesley, MA 02481 (781) 283-1000 - United States)
10
MPIK - Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg - Germany)
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Jägerstrasse, 10-11, D-10117 Berlin - Germany)
11
Electrical Engineering Department (San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192, USA - United States)
- SJSU - San Jose State University [San José] (One Washington Square,San Jose, CA 95192 - United States)
12
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)
13
CICLOPS - Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO 80301, USA - United States)
- SSI - Space Science Institute [Boulder] (4750 Walnut St, Suite 205, Boulder, CO 80301 - United States)
14
Institute for Physics and Astronomy (University of Potsdam, Germany - Germany)
- University of Potsdam (Am Neuen Palais 10, House 9 14469 Potsdam - Germany)
15
SETI Institute (189 Bernardo avenue, Mountain View CA 94043 - United States)
16
JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory (4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA - United States)
- CALTECH - California Institute of Technology (1200 East California Blvd, Pasadena, California 91125 - United States)
- NASA (www.nasa.gov - United States)
17
Carleton College (Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057, USA - United States)
Abstract : We review our understanding of Saturn's rings after nearly 6 years of observations by the Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's rings are composed mostly of water ice but also contain an undetermined reddish contaminant. The rings exhibit a range of structure across many spatial scales; some of this involves the interplay of the fluid nature and the self-gravity of innumerable orbiting centimeter- to meter-sized particles, and the effects of several peripheral and embedded moonlets, but much remains unexplained. A few aspects of ring structure change on time scales as short as days. It remains unclear whether the vigorous evolutionary processes to which the rings are subject imply a much younger age than that of the solar system. Processes on view at Saturn have parallels in circumstellar disks.
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- DOI : 10.1126/science.1179118
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J. N. Cuzzi, J. A. Burns, S. Charnoz, R. N. Clark, J. E. Colwell, et al.. An Evolving View of Saturn's Dynamic Rings. Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010, 327 (5972), pp.1470-1475. ⟨10.1126/science.1179118⟩. ⟨cea-00865799⟩
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