Publication Date:
1981-04-10
Description:
The Voyager 1 planetary radio astronomy experiment detected two distinct kinds of radio emissions from Saturn. The first, Saturn kilometric radiation, is strongly polarized, bursty, tightly correlated with Saturn's rotation, and exhibits complex dynamic spectral features somewhat reminiscent of those in Jupiter's radio emission. It appears in radio frequencies below about 1.2 megahertz. The second kind of radio emission, Saturn electrostatic discharge, is unpolarized, extremely impulsive, loosely correlated with Saturn's rotation, and very broadband, appearing throughout the observing range of the experiment (20.4 kilohertz to 40.2 megahertz). Its sources appear to lie in the planetary rings.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Warwick, J W -- Pearce, J B -- Evans, D R -- Carr, T D -- Schauble, J J -- Alexander, J K -- Kaiser, M L -- Desch, M D -- Pedersen, M -- Lecacheux, A -- Daigne, G -- Boischot, A -- Barrow, C H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1981 Apr 10;212(4491):239-43.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17783837" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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