Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
May 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pggp.rept..125c&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1986 p 125-127 (SEE N87-23341 16-91)
Physics
Geophysics
Image Processing, Morphology, Planetary Rings, Saturn (Planet), Collisions, Jupiter (Planet), Particles, Photometry, Uranus (Planet)
Scientific paper
Evidence for a moonlet belt in the region between Saturn's close-in moonrings Pandora and Prometheus is discussed. It is argued that little-known observations of magnetospheric electron density by Pioneer 11 imply substantial, ongoing injections of mass into the 2000 km region which surrounds the F ring. A hypothesis is presented that these events result naturally from interparticle collisions between the smaller members of an optically thin belt of moonlets. Also discussed is work on Uranus ring structure and photometry, image processing and analysis of the Jonian ring strucure, photometric and structural studies of the A ring of Saturn, and improvements to an image processing system for ring studies.
Cuzzi Jeffrey N.
Durisen Richard H.
Shu Frank H.
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