Close-range remote sensing of Saturn’s rings during Cassini’s ring grazing orbits and grand finale
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 9 - Physics
- Output identifier
- 247
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1126/science.aau1017
- Title of journal
- Science
- Article number
- ARTN eaau1017
- First page
- eaau1017
- Volume
- 364
- Issue
- 6445
- ISSN
- 1095-9203
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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24
- Research group(s)
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B - AU
- Citation count
- 6
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- Murray led the execution and analysis of the Cassini observations relating to Saturn’s F ring that were described in the paper. These showed that a small section of the F ring core that was analysed exhibited evidence of a variety of collisions with mostly small, unseen objects. Murray led the design and implementation of a unique set of images of the same section of the core taken 85 minutes apart. These showed how one such object had broken up into at least ten smaller objects, each of which collided with the core to produce synchronised, evolving “mini-jets”.
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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