Larry W. Esposito is Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, and also the principal investigator of the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) experiment on the Cassini space mission to Saturn. He was chair of the Voyager Rings Working Group, and, as a member of the Pioneer Saturn imaging team, he discovered Saturn's F ring. Dr Esposito has participated in numerous US, Russian and European space missions and used the Hubble Space Telescope for its first observations of the planet Venus. His awards received include the Harold C. Urey Prize from the American Astronomical Society, the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and the Richtmyer Lecture Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Physical Society. Dr Esposito has served as chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX), and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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