Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
After more than six years in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) has acquired an extensive set of measurements of Saturn's main rings (A, B, C and Cassini Division) in the thermal infrared. Temperatures were retrieved for the lit and unlit rings over a variety of ring geometries that include phase angle, solar and spacecraft elevations and local time. We show that some of these parameters (solar and spacecraft elevations, phase angle) play a role in the temperature variations in the first order, while the others (ring and particle local time) produced second order effects. The results of this comparison will be presented.
Keywords:
Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration
Type:
European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) Joint Meeting 2011 La Citý Internationale des Congrýs Nantes Mýtropole; Oct 02, 2011 - Oct 07, 2011; Nantes; France
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