Physical Properties of Saturn's Rings Derived from Cassini UVIS Far Ultraviolet Reflectance Spectra

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Oct 2011

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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.549

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Saturn's main rings are known to consist mostly of water ice with a small amount of contaminant. The relative abundance and composition of the contaminant as well as the microphysical structure of the ice-contaminant matrix affects the scattering properties of the ring particles. We have performed an analysis of Cassini UVIS FUV reflectance spectra of Saturn's rings where we have derived the ring particle bond albedo, Ab, the ring particle phase function, and the average distance to scattering centers within the particle, which is characterized by the photon mean path length L. Constraining these physical parameters has implications for the composition and fractional abundance of materials comprising ring particles.

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