Planetary Rings
eBook - PDF

Planetary Rings

A Post-Equinox View

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Planetary Rings

A Post-Equinox View

About this book

Fully updated and expanded, this new edition presents a cutting-edge summary of planetary rings, including results from Cassini's Saturn System, Equinox and Solstice missions, and the New Horizons flyby of Jupiter. The book introduces basic physical processes and simple mathematical approaches in an accessible manner, including N-body and stochastic models of ring dynamics. Further revised chapters present highlighted topics including Saturn's F ring, Uranus' rings and moons, Neptune's partial rings, dusty rings, and Jupiter's ring-moon system after Galileo and New Horizons. Cassini results are fully integrated throughout, including new images in color, and a new Afterword links ring images in the Cassini 'Hall of Fame' gallery to the relevant explanation in the text. An online cache of images and videos from NASA's collection makes it easy to locate relevant and beautiful illustrative materials. This is a key resource for students, researchers and professionals in planetary science, astronomy and space-mission research.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface: A personal view of planetary rings
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Studies of planetary rings 1610-2013
  11. 3 Diversity of planetary rings
  12. 4 Individual ring particles and their collisions
  13. 5 Large-scale ring evolution
  14. 6 Moons confine and sculpt rings
  15. 7 Explaining ring phenomena
  16. 8 N-body simulations
  17. 9 Stochastic models
  18. 10 Age and evolution of rings
  19. 11 Saturn’s mysterious F ring
  20. 12 Uranus’ rings and moons
  21. 13 Neptune’s partial rings
  22. 14 Jupiter’s ring-moon system after Galileo and New Horizons
  23. 15 Ring photometry and spectroscopy
  24. 16 Dusty rings
  25. 17 Concluding remarks
  26. Afterword The Cassini Hall of Fame
  27. Glossary
  28. References
  29. Index