The source of Saturn's G ring

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5838, 2007, Pages 653-656

  Hedman, Matthew M ^a   Burns, Joseph A ^a   Tiscareno, Matthew S ^a   Porco, Carolyn C ^b   Jones, Geraint H ^c,d   Roussos, Elias ^c   Krupp, Norbert ^c   Paranicas, Chris ^e   Kempf, Sascha ^f  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; RESONANCE; SATURN; SPACECRAFT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; MASS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34547792488     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1143964     Document Type: Article

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22. We thank the staff at the Space Science Institute, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Cornell University for planning and delivering the imaging data, and M. Kusterer of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) for LEMMS data reduction. We also acknowledge the support of the Cassini Project and NASA's Planetary Geology & Geophysics program. MIMI/LEMMS was in part financed by the German Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung through the German Aerospace Center (DLR) under contract 50 OH 0103 and by the Max Planck Gesellschaft. The work at JHUAPL was supported by NASA under contract NAS5-97271 with the Johns Hopkins University. G.H.J. was partially supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK.