Magnetic connection for Saturn's rings and atmosphere

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Aug 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986georl..13..773c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 13, Aug. 1986, p. 773-776.

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Magnetic Field Reconnection, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Saturn Atmosphere, Saturn Rings, Atmospheric Models, Atmospheric Temperature, Ionospheric Electron Density, Latitude, Methane, Planetary Ionospheres, Voyager Project

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Latitudinal variations in images of Saturn's disk, upper atmospheric temperatures, and ionospheric electron densities are found in magnetic conjugacy with features in Saturn's ring plane. The author proposes that these latitudinal variations are the result of a variable influx of water, transported along magnetic field lines from sources in Saturn's ring plane. These features are thus the surface expression of an electromagnetic erosion mechanism which transports water (in the form of high charge-to-mass ratio particles) from the rings to the atmosphere.

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