IRTF Observations of Saturn-Earth Ring Plane Crossing: Faint Outer Ring Near-IR Profiles

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27...79b&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 79

Physics

E Ring, G Ring, Rings, Rings: Faint, Saturn Ring Plane Crossing

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On May 22nd and August 10th, 1995 (UT), the Earth passed through the plane of Saturn's main rings. In order to study Saturn's ring system and inner moons, we obtained several thousand images at 1.1, 1.7, and 2.2 micrometers on the nights of May 21st, 22nd, and 25th and August 6th 7th, and 8th at the NASA IRTF using the NSFCam, a 256 x 256 pixel InSb imaging detector. On all these nights but the 21st, the dark side of the rings was visible. We obtained several deeper exposures of the region beyond the East and West ring ansae of the main rings, and successfully observed Saturn's faint E and G rings.

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