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The hidden mysteries of our ice giant planets [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsNearly 40 years have passed since Voyager 2 visited the ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune, yet many fundamental questions about these worlds remains unresolved.
Kyla de Villa, Huazhi Ge
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Dynamical Interactions and Mass Loss within the Uranian System
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 The origin and evolution of planetary rings and moons remains an active area of study, particularly as they relate to the impact history and volatile inventory of the outer solar system.
Stephen R. Kane, Zhexing Li
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The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 The ζ ring is the innermost component of the Uranian ring system. It is of scientific interest because its morphology changed significantly between the Voyager 2 encounter in 1986 and subsequent Earth-based observations around 2007.
M. M. Hedman +5 more
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Planetary formation and early phases
Comptes Rendus. Physique, 2023 Planets form in proto-planetary disks. In this review, we describe the structure and properties of such disks, and the various phenomenons that lead to the final product: a planetary system. First, micrometre dust settles and coagulates.
Crida, Aurélien
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Simulating Secondary Electron and Ion Emission from the Cassini Spacecraft in Saturn’s Ionosphere
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 The Cassini spacecraft’s Grand Finale flybys through Saturn’s ionosphere provided unprecedented insight into the composition and dynamics of the gas giant’s upper atmosphere and a novel and complex spacecraft–plasma interaction.
Z. Zhang +5 more
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The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 In support of studies of decadal-timescale evolution of outer solar system atmospheres and ring systems, we present detailed Earth-based stellar occultation predictions for Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Titan, and Triton for 2023–2050,
Richard G. French, Damya Souami
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union, 1980 Observations of the Rings of Saturn from the Pioneer spacecraft, discovery of the Ring of Jupiter, ground based polarimetry of the Rings of Saturn and some theoretical studies may be combined to markedly advance our understanding of the Rings of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
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Gap-opening Planets Make Dust Rings Wider
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 As one of the most commonly observed disk substructures, dust rings from high-resolution disk surveys appear to have different radial widths. Recent observations on PDS 70 and AB Aur reveal not only planets in the disk, but also the accompanying wide ...
Jiaqing Bi, Min-Kai Lin, Ruobing Dong
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Rings in the haloes of planetary nebulae [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2004 10pp., 4 figs, accepted by A&A main ...
Corradi, R.L.M. +4 more
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A Recent Impact Origin of Saturn’s Rings and Mid-sized Moons
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We simulate the collision of precursor icy moons analogous to Dione and Rhea as a possible origin for Saturn’s remarkably young rings. Such an event could have been triggered a few hundred million years ago by resonant instabilities in a previous ...
L. F. A. Teodoro +7 more
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