Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 1977
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977natur.268...32s&link_type=abstract
Nature, vol. 268, July 7, 1977, p. 32.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
7
Astronomical Photography, Charge Coupled Devices, Infrared Astronomy, Planetary Structure, Planetology, Ring Structures, Uranus (Planet), Chemical Composition, Reflectance
Scientific paper
The discovery of rings surrounding Uranus has prompted reexamination of telescopic observations made a year ago with a solid-state area detector called a charge-coupling device (CCD). The extreme narrowness of the rings apparently caused them to be hidden in glare from the planet, the reflectivity of which is very high in the blue and green regions of the spectrum. However, Uranus appears as a much darker image in the near-infrared spectral regions detected by the CCD. Although no direct evidence of the rings is obtainable from the CCD images, some simplifying assumptions permit the deduction from the CCD data that average reflectivity of individual particles composing the rings is at most a few percent, much closer to that of carbonaceous chondritic material than to that of the ice-coated particles in Saturn's rings.
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