The Large-scale Structure of Saturn's E ring

Details The Large-scale Structure of Saturn's E ring The Large-scale Structure of Saturn's E ring

Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufm.p43b1290j&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #P43B-1290

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5465 Rings And Dust, 6275 Saturn, 6280 Saturnian Satellites

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Geysers on the recently discovered, geologically active south-polar region of the moon Enceladus are now recognized as the dominant source of material in Saturn's E ring. The ring was traditionally thought to span the region between 3 to 8 RS, where RS is the radius of Saturn. However, new in situ dust measurements indicate that the density of small grains might continuously extend far beyond these boundaries, and the E ring could reach even beyond the orbit of Titan (20.3 RS). We report on the modeling results of the long-term evolution of dust particles comprising the E ring to show that grains from Enceladus could indeed reach the outskirts of Saturn's magnetosphere.

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