Cassini dust measurement at Enceladus and implications for the origin of the E ring

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5766, 2006, Pages 1416-1418

  Spahn, Frank ^a   Schmidt, Jürgen ^a   Albers, Nicole ^a   Hörning, Marcel ^a   Makuch, Martin ^a   Seiß, Martin ^a   Kempf, Sascha ^b   Srama, Ralf ^b   Dikarev, Valeri ^b,c   Helfert, Stefan ^b   Moragas Klostermeyer, Georg ^b   Krivov, Alexander V ^c   Sremčević, Miodrag ^e   Tuzzolino, Anthony J ^f   Economou, Thanasis ^f   Grün, Eberhard ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT; DETECTORS; DUST; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH;

DUST IMPACT RATE; DUST MEASUREMENT; ENCELADUS; SATURN'S E RING; WATER GAS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

WATER;

DUST; SATURN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; GAS; GEOLOGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MOON; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPACE FLIGHT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERE; MICROCLIMATE;

ATMOSPHERE; COSMIC DUST; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; SATURN; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 33644864733     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1121375     Document Type: Article

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27. We thank T. V. Johnson for comments on the manuscript. The Potsdam group was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grants Sp 384/16, Sp 384/17, and Sp 384/18; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR) grant 500H0003; and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. The group at the Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik was supported by the Max Planck Society and by DLR under grant 5000H9802. The work in Chicago was supported by Jet Propulsion Laboratory contract 96 11 70, and M. Sremčević is funded by the Cassini UVIS project.