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Self-Gravity Wake Structures in Saturn's A Ring Revealed by Cassini VIMS

Nicholson, Philip D.; Hedman, Matthew M.; Baines, Kevin H. +5 more

During the summer of 2005, the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer onboard the Cassini spacecraft observed a series of occultations of the star o Ceti (Mira) by Saturn's rings. These observations revealed pronounced variations in the optical depth of the A ring with longitude, which can be attributed to oriented structures in the rings known …