The brightening of Saturn's F ring
Robert S. French,Mark R. Showalter,Rafael Sfair,Carlos Arguelles,M. Pajuelo,Patricio Becerra,Matthew M. Hedman,Philip D. Nicholson +7 more
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In this paper, the authors performed photometric measurements of more than 4800 images of Saturn's F ring taken over a 5-year period with Cassini's Narrow Angle Camera, and applied a photometric model based on single-scattering in the presence of shadowing and obscuration.About:
This article is published in Icarus.The article was published on 2012-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 27 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rings of Saturn.read more
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Saturn’s g and d rings provide nearly complete measured scattering phase functions of nearby debris disks
TL;DR: The appearance of debris disks around distant stars depends upon the scattering/phase function (SPF) of the material in the disk as discussed by the authors, which can provide insights into the plausible scattering properties of debris disk.
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Observations of ejecta clouds produced by impacts onto Saturn's rings.
Matthew S. Tiscareno,Colin Mitchell,Carl D. Murray,Daiana Di Nino,Matthew M. Hedman,Jürgen Schmidt,Jürgen Schmidt,Joseph A. Burns,Jeffrey N. Cuzzi,Carolyn C. Porco,K. Beurle,Michael W. Evans +11 more
TL;DR: Observations of dusty clouds in Saturn's rings are reported, which are interpreted as resulting from impacts onto the rings that occurred between 1 and 50 hours before the clouds were observed, and the largest of these clouds was observed twice; its brightness and cant angle evolved in a manner consistent with this hypothesis.
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Detection of Low-velocity Collisions in Saturn's F Ring
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the mini-jets are the result of low-velocity collisions with nearby objects, such as S/2004 S 6 and the core of the F ring, resulting in paths relative to the core that are due to a combination of Keplerian shear and epicyclic motion.
A Predator-Prey Model for Moon-Triggered Clumping in Saturn's Rings
Larry W. Esposito,Nicole Albers,Bonnie K. Meinke,M. Sremcevic,Prasanna Madhusudhanan,Joshua Colwell,R. G. Jerousek +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the collective behavior of the ring particles resembles a predator-prey system: the mean aggregate size is the prey, which feeds the velocity dispersion; conversely, increasing dispersion breaks up the aggregates.
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Saturn's F ring grains: Aggregates made of crystalline water ice
Sanaz Vahidinia,Jeffrey N. Cuzzi,Matthew M. Hedman,Bruce T. Draine,R. N. Clark,Ted L. Roush,Gianrico Filacchione,Philip D. Nicholson,Robert H. Brown,Bonnie J. Buratti,C. Sotin +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present models of the near-infrared (1-5-μm) spectra of Saturn's F ring obtained by Cassini's VIMS at ultra-high phase angles (177.4-178.5°).
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Light scattering in planetary atmospheres
James Hansen,Larry D. Travis +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of scattering theory required for analysis of light reflected by planetary atmospheres is presented, which demonstrates the dependence of single-scattered radiation on the physical properties of the scatterers.
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A new look at the saturn system: the voyager 2 images.
Bradford A. Smith,Laurence A. Soderblom,R. M. Batson,Patricia Bridges,Jay L. Inge,Harold Masursky,Eugene M. Shoemaker,Reta Beebe,Joseph M. Boyce,G. A. Briggs,Anne Bunker,Stewart A. Collins,Candice Hansen,Torrence V. Johnson,Jim L. Mitchell,Richard J. Terrile,A. F. Cook,Jeffrey N. Cuzzi,James B. Pollack,G. Edward Danielson,Andrew P. Ingersoll,Merton E. Davies,Garry E. Hunt,David Morrison,Tobias Owen,Carl Sagan,Joseph Veverka,Robert G. Strom,Verner E. Suomi +28 more
TL;DR: Within Saturn's rings, the "birth" of a spoke has been observed, and surprising azimuthal and time variability is found in the ringlet structure of the outer B ring, leading to speculations about Saturn's internal structure and about the collisional and thermal history of the rings and satellites.
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Encounter with Saturn: Voyager 1 imaging science results
Bradford A. Smith,Laurence A. Soderblom,Reta Beebe,Joseph M. Boyce,Geoffery Briggs,Anne Bunker,Stewart A. Collins,Candice Hansen,Torrence V. Johnson,Jim L. Mitchell,R. J. Terrile,Michael H. Carr,Allen F. Cook,Jeffrey N. Cuzzi,James B. Pollack,G. Edward Danielson,Andrew P. Ingersoll,Merton E. Davies,Garry E. Hunt,Harold Masursky,Eugene M. Shoemaker,David Morrison,Tobias Owen,Carl Sagan,Joseph Veverka,Robert G. Strom,Verner E. Suomi +26 more
TL;DR: As Voyager 1 flew through the Saturn system it returned photographs revealing many new and surprising characteristics of this complicated community of bodies, including small inner satellites that interact gravitationally with one another and with the ring particles in ways not observed elsewhere in the solar system.
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The Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) Investigation
Robert H. Brown,Kevin H. Baines,G. Bellucci,Jean-Pierre Bibring,B. J. Buratti,F. Capaccioni,P. Cerroni,Roger N. Clark,A. Coradini,Dale P. Cruikshank,Pierre Drossart,V. Formisano,R. Jaumann,Y. Langevin,D. L. Matson,T. B. McCord,Vito Mennella,E. Miller,R. M. Nelson,P. D. Nicholson,Bruno Sicardy,Christophe Sotin +21 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors elucidate the major scientific and measurement goals of the investigation, major characteristics of the Cassini VIMS instrument, the instrument calibration, and operation, and the results of the recent Cassini flybys of Venus and the Earth-Moon system.
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