Planetary Rings: A Post-Equinox View

278 Pages·2014·27.8 MB·English

by  Esposito L.

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PLANETARY RINGS
APost-EquinoxView
second edition
Fullyupdatedandexpanded,thisneweditionpresentsacutting-edgesummaryofplanetary
rings and a wealth of exciting space mission results which have greatly increased our
understanding of rings in recent years, including Cassini’s initial Saturn System mission
anditsextendedEquinoxandSolsticemissions,andtheNewHorizonsflybyofJupiter.
LarryEspositodrawsonhis40years’researchexperience,includinghispositionasa
principal investigator within the Cassini mission team, to present all aspects of planetary
rings,emphasizingringhistoryandevolution.Thebookintroducesbasicphysicalprocesses
andsimplemathematicalapproachesinaclear,accessiblemanner,includingN-bodyand
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 including information from Galileo and New Horizons.
Cassiniresultsarefullyintegratedthroughout,includingnewimagesincolor,andahelpful
newAfterwordlinkseachoftheringimagesintheCassini‘HallofFame’gallerytothe
relevantexplanationinthetext.Thebookisalsosupportedbyanonlinecacheofselected
images and videos from the NASA collection, making iteasy tolocate the most relevant
andbeautifulillustrativematerialsavailable.
Thisisakeyresourceforstudentsstudyingplanetaryscience,andathoroughoverview
forresearchersandprofessionalsinastronomyandspace-missionresearch.
larry esposito isProfessorofAstrophysicalandPlanetarySciencesattheUniversity
of Colorado, and also the principal investigator of the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph
(UVIS) experiment on the Cassini space mission to Saturn. He was chair of the Voyager
RingsWorkingGroup,and,asamemberofthePioneerSaturnimagingteam,hediscovered
Saturn’sFring.DrEspositohasparticipatedinnumerousUS,RussianandEuropeanspace
missionsandusedtheHubbleSpaceTelescopeforitsfirstobservationsoftheplanetVenus.
His awards received include the Harold C. Urey Prize from the American Astronomical
Society, the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and the Richtmyer
Lecture Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American
Physical Society. Dr Esposito has served as chair of the National Academy of Sciences
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX), and is a Fellow of the
AmericanGeophysicalUnion.
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CambridgePlanetaryScience
SeriesEditors:FranBagenal,DavidJewitt,CarlMurray,JimBell,RalphLorenz,
FrancisNimmo,SaraRussell
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PLANETARY RINGS
A Post-Equinox View
second edition
LARRY W. ESPOSITO
LaboratoryforAtmosphericandSpacePhysics,
UniversityofColorado
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