Solar system: Saturn's ring rain
DOI: 10.1038/496178a
Bibcode: 2013Natur.496..178C
Connerney, Jack
United States
Abstract
Saturn's atmosphere bears a latent image of its icy rings, implying that electrically charged bits of water ice are being transported along magnetic-field lines of force from sources in the ring plane to the upper atmosphere. See Letter p.193
2013
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Nature
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