Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufm.p31b1539g&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #P31B-1539
Physics
[6015] Planetary Sciences: Comets And Small Bodies / Dust, [6213] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Dust, [6275] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Saturn
Scientific paper
Dust streams emanating from the Saturn system were detected by the Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyser (CDA) in 2004, at a distance of half an A.U., and they continue to be detected as Cassini orbits Saturn. While Io is accepted as the dominant source of the Jovian dust stream particles, the source or sources of Saturnian dust stream particles is not sure yet. Possibilities include (but are not limited to) Enceladus geysers, fragmented E-ring particles, and collisional fragments from the Main rings. CDA includes a time-of-flight mass spectrometer, providing compositional information not available from Galileo and Ulysses, which will provide new insights and constraints to address particle source issues. In this presentation, I will quantify the conditions under which collimated dust streams form and evolve in the Saturn system and compare it to the generation of dust streams in the Jupiter system.
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