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The Cassini spacecraft's last orbits directly sampled Saturn's thermosphere and revealed a much more chemically complex environment than previously believed. Observations from the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) aboard Cassini…

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We present in this Letter the first coordinated radio occultation measurements and ultraviolet observations of the inner corona below 5.5 Rs, obtained during the Galileo solar conjunction in January 1997, to establish the origin of the slow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. R. Habbal , R. Woo , S. Fineschi , R. O'Neal , J. Kohl , G. Noci , C. Korendyke

The incredible longevity of Cassini's orbital mission at Saturn has provided the most comprehensive exploration of a seasonal giant planet to date. This review explores Saturn's changing global temperatures, composition, and aerosol…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-09 L. N. Fletcher , L. Sromovsky , V. Hue , J. I. Moses , S. Guerlet , R. A. West , T. Koskinen

We report on spectroscopic observations of Saturn's stratosphere in July 2011 with the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph (TEXES) mounted on the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF). The observations, targeting several lines of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-26 Thierry Fouchet , Thomas K. Greathouse , Aymeric Spiga , Leigh N. Fletcher , Sandrine Guerlet , Jérémy Leconte , Glenn S. Orton

Waves and oscillations have been observed in the Sun's atmosphere for over half a century. While such phenomena have readily been observed across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, spanning radio to gamma-ray sources, the underlying role…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 David B. Jess , Shahin Jafarzadeh , Peter H. Keys , Marco Stangalini , Gary Verth , Samuel D. T. Grant

Electric field measurements of the Time Domain Sampler (TDS) receiver, part of the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument on board Solar Orbiter, often exhibit very intense broadband wave emissions at frequencies below 20~kHz in the…

Natural satellite systems present a large variety of orbital configurations in the solar system. While some are clearly the result of known processes, others still have largely unexplained eccentricity and inclination values. Iapetus has a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 William Polycarpe , Melaine Saillenfest , Valéry Lainey , Alain Vienne , Benoît Noyelles , Nicolas Rambaux

We use magnetic field and ion moment data from the MFI and SWE instruments onboard the Wind spacecraft to study the nature of solar wind turbulence at ion-kinetic scales. We analyze the spectral properties of magnetic field fluctuations…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-03-26 Lloyd D. Woodham , Robert T. Wicks , Daniel Verscharen , Christopher J. Owen

For the first time, we report a large-scale wave that was observed simultaneously in the photosphere, chromosphere, transition region and low corona layers of the solar atmosphere. Using the high temporal and high spatial resolution…

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Saturn's B ring is the most opaque ring in our solar system, but many of its fundamental parameters, including its total mass, are not well constrained. Spiral density waves generated by mean-motion resonances with Saturn's moons provide…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 M. M. Hedman , P. D. Nicholson

We have performed an extensive statistical investigation of how interplanetary fast forward shocks affect certain turbulence parameters, namely, the cross-helicity, $\sigma_c$, residual energy, $\sigma_r$, and magnetic helicity, $\sigma_m$.…

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The core mass of Saturn is commonly assumed to be 10-25 ME as predicted by interior models with various equations of state (EOSs) and the Voyager gravity data, and hence larger than that of Jupiter (0-10 ME). We here re-analyze Saturn's…

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We report on observations of an extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) wave event in the Sun on 2011 January 13 by \emph{Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory} (\emph{STEREO}) and \emph{Solar Dynamics Observatory} (\emph{SDO}) in quadrature. Both the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Weiguo Zong , Yu Dai

We use the multi-spacecraft capabilities of the Cluster and THEMIS missions to show that two types of foreshock may be detected in spacecraft data. One is the global foreshock that appears upstream of the Earth's quasi-parallel bow-shock…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Primoz Kajdic , Xochitl Blanco-Cano , Nojan Omidi , Diana Rojas-Castillo , David G. Sibeck , Laurence Billingham

We review the importance of recent UV observations of solar system targets and discuss the need for further measurements, instrumentation and laboratory work in the coming decade. In the past decade, numerous important advances have been…

We revisit the evidence for a "dust cloud" observed by the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn in 2006. The data of four instruments are simultaneously compared to interpret the signatures of a coherent swarm of dust that would have remained near…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-04 Emil Khalisi

Throughout 2017, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observed the northern far-ultraviolet aurorae of Saturn at northern solstice, during the Cassini Grand Finale. These conditions provided a complete viewing of the northern auroral region…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-27 L. Lamy , R. Prangé , C. Tao , T. Kim , S. V. Badman , P. Zarka , B. Cecconi , W. S. Kurth , W. Pryor , E. Bunce , A. Radioti

Remote sensing observations meet some limitations when used to study the bulk atmospheric composition of the giant planets of our solar system. A remarkable example of the superiority of in situ probe measurements is illustrated by the…

Recurrent and propagating intensity perturbations are frequently observed in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) channels along coronal fan loops above sunspots, and these perturbations are suggested to be slow magnetoacoustic waves. Numerous studies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Junwei Zhao , Tongjiang Wang , Ruizhu Chen

Stellar activity manifests differently across wavelengths, causing flux variability that can obscure planetary transits. While transit observations are typically performed in the visible and infrared bands, where stellar flux is relatively…

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