Abstract
Images acquired of Saturn's rings and small moons by the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) during the first 9 months of Cassini operations at Saturn have produced many new findings. These include new saturnian moons; refined orbits of new and previously known moons; narrow diffuse rings in the F-ring region and embedded in gaps within the main rings; exceptionally fine-scale ring structure in moderate- to high-optical depth regions; new estimates for the masses of ring-region moons, as well as ring particle properties in the Cassini division, derived from the analysis of linear density waves; ring particle albedos in select ring regions; and never-before-seen phenomena within the rings.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1226-1236 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Science |
Volume | 307 |
Issue number | 5713 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 25 2005 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General