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Fine-Scale Structures In Saturn's Rings Waves, Wakes And Ghosts, Kevin Baille
Fine-Scale Structures In Saturn's Rings Waves, Wakes And Ghosts, Kevin Baille
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The Cassini mission provided wonderful tools to explore Saturn, its satellites and its rings system. The UVIS instrument allowed stellar occultation observations of structures in the rings with the best resolution available (around 10 meters depending on geometry and navigation), bringing our understanding of the physics of the rings to the next level. In particular, we have been able to observe, dissect, model and test the interactions between the satellites and the rings. We first looked at kilometer-wide structures generated by resonances with satellites orbiting outside the main rings. The observation of structures in the C ring and their association …