TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cuzzi, Jeff N.
A1  - Burns, Joseph A.
A1  - Charnoz, Sébastien
A1  - Clark, Roger N.
A1  - Colwell, Josh E.
A1  - Dones, Luke
A1  - Esposito, Larry W.
A1  - Filacchione, Gianrico
A1  - French, Richard G.
A1  - Hedman, Matthew M.
A1  - Kempf, Sascha
A1  - Marouf, Essam A.
A1  - Murray, Carl D.
A1  - Nicholson, Phillip D.
A1  - Porco, Carolyn C.
A1  - Schmidt, Jürgen
A1  - Showalter, Mark R.
A1  - Spilker, Linda J.
A1  - Spitale, Joseph N.
A1  - Srama, Ralf
A1  - Sremcević, Miodrag
A1  - Tiscareno, Matthew Steven
A1  - Weiss, John
T1  - An evolving view of Saturn's dynamic rings
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://www.sciencemag.org/
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1179118
SN  - 0036-8075
ER  -