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| Title |
An Evolving View of Saturn’s Dynamic Rings
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Science, March 2010
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1179118 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
J. N. Cuzzi, J. A. Burns, S. Charnoz, R. N. Clark, J. E. Colwell, L. Dones, L. W. Esposito, G. Filacchione, R. G. French, M. M. Hedman, S. Kempf, E. A. Marouf, C. D. Murray, P. D. Nicholson, C. C. Porco, J. Schmidt, M. R. Showalter, L. J. Spilker, J. N. Spitale, R. Srama, M. Sremčević, M. S. Tiscareno, J. Weiss |
| Abstract |
We review our understanding of Saturn's rings after nearly 6 years of observations by the Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's rings are composed mostly of water ice but also contain an undetermined reddish contaminant. The rings exhibit a range of structure across many spatial scales; some of this involves the interplay of the fluid nature and the self-gravity of innumerable orbiting centimeter- to meter-sized particles, and the effects of several peripheral and embedded moonlets, but much remains unexplained. A few aspects of ring structure change on time scales as short as days. It remains unclear whether the vigorous evolutionary processes to which the rings are subject imply a much younger age than that of the solar system. Processes on view at Saturn have parallels in circumstellar disks. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 67 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 65 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 25 | 37% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 19% |
| Professor | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 15 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy | 28 | 42% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 8 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 12% |
| Engineering | 2 | 3% |
| Chemistry | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 6 | 9% |
| Unknown | 13 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 March 2021.
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#1,510,427
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#23,408
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#5,318
of 94,034 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#103
of 372 outputs
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