The microwave opacity of Saturn's rings at wavelengths of 3.6 and 13 CM from Voyager 1 radio occultation

Details The microwave opacity of Saturn's rings at wavelengths of 3.6 and 13 CM from Voyager 1 radio occultation The microwave opacity of Saturn's rings at wavelengths of 3.6 and 13 CM from Voyager 1 radio occultation

May 1983

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(Saturn Conference, Tucson, AZ, May 11-15, 1982) Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 54, May 1983, p. 160-188. NASA-supported research

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Microwave Transmission, Opacity, Radio Occultation, Saturn Rings, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Data Reduction, Particle Size Distribution, Scattering Cross Sections, Spacecraft Antennas, Saturn, Microwaves, Wavelengths, Observations, Remote Sensing, Rings, Optical Properties, Opacity, Voyager 1, Radio Observations, Occultations

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Information obtained about Saturn's rings through radio occultation observations with Voyager 1 is discussed. The experimental aspects are addressed, including the positional relationships and relative motions of the spacecraft, rings, and earth, the radio system, observables, microwave opacity, and diffraction. The data characteristics, reduction procedures, calibrations, and corrections are described, and results are presented for the opacity, complex extinction, and diffraction. Ring C is found to exhibit a gently undulating structure of normal opacity, except for several narrow imbedded ringlets. The normalized differential opacity indicates a substantial fraction of centimeter-size particles. In the Cassini division, the opacity appears to be nearly independent of wavelength. Ring A appears to be nearly homogeneous over much of its width, but with considerable thickening near its inner boundary with the Cassini division.

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