Dust grains fall from Saturn's D-ring into its equatorial upper atmosphere

DG Mitchell, ME Perry, DC Hamilton, JH Westlake… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Ring material has long been thought to enter Saturn's atmosphere,
modifying its atmospheric and ionospheric chemistry. This phenomenon, dubbed “ring rain,” …

Dust grains fall from Saturn's D-ring into its equatorial upper atmosphere

DG Mitchell, ME Perry, DC Hamilton, JH Westlake… - Science, 2018 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
The sizes of Saturn's ring particles range from meters (boulders) to nanometers (dust).
Determination of the rings' ages depends on loss processes, including the transport of dust …

[PDF][PDF] Dust grains fall from Saturn's D-ring into its equatorial upper atmosphere

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RESULTS: The Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument—designed to measure energetic
neutral atoms, ions, and electrons—recorded very small dust grains [8000 to 40,000 unified …

Dust grains fall from Saturn's D-ring into its equatorial upper atmosphere

DG Mitchell, ME Perry, DC Hamilton… - … (New York, NY), 2018 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The sizes of Saturn's ring particles range from meters (boulders) to nanometers (dust).
Determination of the rings' ages depends on loss processes, including the transport of dust …

Dust grains fall from Saturn's D-ring into its equatorial upper atmosphere

DG Mitchell, ME Perry, DC Hamilton… - … Association for the …, 2018 - iro.uiowa.edu
Cassini's final phase of exploration The Cassini spacecraft spent 13 years orbiting Saturn;
as it ran low on fuel, the trajectory was changed to sample regions it had not yet visited. A …

Dust grains fall from Saturn's D-ring into its equatorial upper atmosphere.

DG Mitchell, ME Perry, DC Hamilton… - Science (New York …, 2018 - europepmc.org
The sizes of Saturn's ring particles range from meters (boulders) to nanometers (dust).
Determination of the rings' ages depends on loss processes, including the transport of dust …