Planetary rings : a post-equinox view
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Planetary rings : a post-equinox view
(Cambridge planetary science series, 15)
Cambridge University Press, c2014
Second edition
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Preface: a personal view of planetary rings
- 1. Introduction: the allure of the ringed planets
- 2. Studies of planetary rings 1610-2013
- 3. Diversity of planetary rings
- 4. Individual ring particles and their collisions
- 5. Large-scale ring evolution
- 6. Moons confine and sculpt rings
- 7. Explaining ring phenomena
- 8. N-body simulations
- 9. Stochastic models
- 10. Age and evolution of rings
- 11. Saturn's mysterious F ring
- 12. Uranus' rings and moons
- 13. Neptune's partial rings
- 14. Jupiter's ring-moon system after Galileo and New Horizons
- 15. Ring photometry
- 16. Dusty rings
- 17. Concluding remarks
- Afterword
- Glossary
- References
- Index.
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