Planetary Rings: A Post-Equinox View

ISBN-13: 9781108447904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 258 str.

Larry W. Esposito

Opis

Providing the latest results from the Cassini mission, this up-to-date new edition covers all aspects of planetary rings.

Recenzje

'Supported by an online collection of beautiful NASA images, this is a critical resource for anyone interested in planetary sciences.' Choice

Spis treści

Preface: a personal view of planetary rings; 1. Introduction: the allure of the ringed planets; 2. Studies of planetary rings 1610–2013; 3. Diversity of planetary rings; 4. Individual ring particles and their collisions; 5. Large-scale ring evolution; 6. Moons confine and sculpt rings; 7. Explaining ring phenomena; 8. N-body simulations; 9. Stochastic models; 10. Age and evolution of rings; 11. Saturn's mysterious F ring; 12. Uranus' rings and moons; 13. Neptune's partial rings; 14. Jupiter's ring-moon system after Galileo and New Horizons; 15. Ring photometry; 16. Dusty rings; 17. Concluding remarks; Afterword; Glossary; References; Index.