Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989icar...77..311j&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 77, Feb. 1989, pt. 1, p. 311-329.
Physics
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Heavy Ions, Molecular Clouds, Planetary Atmospheres, Saturn (Planet), Toruses, Voyager Project, High Temperature Plasmas, Ice, Monte Carlo Method, Planetary Orbits, Plasma Density, Sputtering, Saturn, Ions, Torus, Neutral Particles, Water, Clouds, Morphology, Voyager Missions, Spacecraft Observations, Models, Icy Bodies, Satellites, Sputtering, Plasma, Source, Origin, E Ring, Flux, Orbits, Diagrams, Density, Structure, Accretion, Dione, Tethys
Scientific paper
Voyager plasma data are used in conjunction with laboratory data on water molecule sputter-yields and energy distributions to calculate the morphology of the Saturn neutral water molecule and dissociated water molecule-product torus coexisting with the E-ring and icy satellites of this planet. Plasma production rates determined for this cloud exhibit a structure with distance from Saturn as well as from the orbit plane; this suggests a lack of equilibrium for the heavy ion plasma at less than 7 planet radii. Attention is given to the possibility that the Saturn E-ring may be a precipitate of the neutral cloud that is initiated by low-energy ion-molecule reactions.
Cheng Andrew F.
Johnson Robert E.
Lanzerotti Louis J.
Pospieszalska M. K.
Sieveka E. M.
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