Temperature variations of Saturn rings with viewing geometries from Prime to Equinox Cassini Missions.

Deau, E. A.; Spilker, L. J.; Morishima, R.; Brooks, S.; Pilorz, S.; Altobelli, N.

dc.contributor.author	Deau, E. A.
dc.contributor.author	Spilker, L. J.
dc.contributor.author	Morishima, R.
dc.contributor.author	Brooks, S.
dc.contributor.author	Pilorz, S.
dc.contributor.author	Altobelli, N.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-09-16T18:13:22Z
dc.date.available	2013-09-16T18:13:22Z
dc.date.issued	2011-10-02
dc.identifier.citation	European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) Joint Meeting 2011 La Cité Internationale des Congrès Nantes Métropole, Nantes, France, October 2-7, 2011	en_US
dc.identifier.clearanceno	11-4005
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2014/43720
dc.description.abstract	After more than six years in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) has acquired an extensive set of measruements 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 vatiations in the first order, while the others (ring and particle local time) produced second order effects. The results of this comparison will be presented.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	NASA/JPL	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2011.	en_US
dc.subject	Saturn's rings	en_US
dc.subject	observational geometry	en_US
dc.title	Temperature variations of Saturn rings with viewing geometries from Prime to Equinox Cassini Missions.	en_US
dc.type	Preprint	en_US