Cassini Imaging Science: Initial results on Saturn's rings and small satellites

  • C. C. Porco
  • , E. Baker
  • , J. Barbara
  • , K. Beurle
  • , A. Brahic
  • , J. A. Burns
  • , S. Charnoz
  • , N. Cooper
  • , D. D. Dawson
  • , A. D. Del Genio
  • , T. Denk
  • , L. Dones
  • , U. Dyudina
  • , M. W. Evans
  • , B. Giese
  • , K. Grazier
  • , P. Helfenstein
  • , A. P. Ingersoll
  • , R. A. Jacobson
  • , T. V. Johnson
  • A. McEwen, C. D. Murray, G. Neukum, W. M. Owen, J. Perry, T. Roatsch, J. Spitale, S. Squyres, P. Thomas, M. Tiscareno, E. Turtle, A. R. Vasavada, J. Veverka, R. Wagner, R. West

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1226-1236
Number of pages11
JournalScience
Volume307
Issue number5713
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 25 2005

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General

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