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- Title
Solar system: Saturn's ring rain.
- Authors
Connerney, Jack
- Abstract
The article focuses on the role of Saturn's rings evolution which has a significance of the Solar System formation. Researchers O'Donoghue and colleagues observes the mechanism of electromagnetic erosion which conveys ring mass and disposes it in the upper atmosphere of Saturn. It states that the features of the ring can be justified by the dynamics of a collisional particles in an orbit that behaves similar to a dense gas, in which it is characterized by pressure, temperature and viscosity.
- Subjects
RINGS of Saturn; SOLAR system; ELECTROMAGNETIC forces; ARTIFICIAL atmospheres (Space environment); GASES; VISCOSITY; TEMPERATURE
- Publication
Nature, 2013, Vol 496, Issue 7444, p178
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/496178a