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. 2005 Feb 25;307(5713):1226-36.
doi: 10.1126/science.1108056.

Cassini Imaging Science: initial results on Saturn's rings and small satellites

C C Porco  1 , E Baker, J Barbara, K Beurle, A Brahic, J A Burns, S Charnoz, N Cooper, D D Dawson, A D Del Genio, T Denk, L Dones, U Dyudina, M W Evans, B Giese, K Grazier, P Helfenstein, A P Ingersoll, R A Jacobson, T V Johnson, A McEwen, C D Murray, G Neukum, W M Owen, J Perry, T Roatsch, J Spitale, S Squyres, P Thomas, M Tiscareno, E Turtle, A R Vasavada, J Veverka, R Wagner, R West
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Cassini Imaging Science: initial results on Saturn's rings and small satellites

C C Porco et al. Science. .
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Abstract

Images acquired of Saturn's rings and small moons by the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) during the first 9 months of Cassini operations at Saturn have produced many new findings. These include new saturnian moons; refined orbits of new and previously known moons; narrow diffuse rings in the F-ring region and embedded in gaps within the main rings; exceptionally fine-scale ring structure in moderate- to high-optical depth regions; new estimates for the masses of ring-region moons, as well as ring particle properties in the Cassini division, derived from the analysis of linear density waves; ring particle albedos in select ring regions; and never-before-seen phenomena within the rings.

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