In:
International Astronomical Union Colloquium, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 75 ( 1984), p. 75-86
Kurzfassung:
The reductions of electronographic plates taken during ground-based observations of Saturn at the times of the transits of the Sun and the Earth through the ring plane (March 1980) are interpreted. 1. The variation of the ring’s brightness vs. elevation angle around Earth’s crossing is different from the variation around Sun’s crossing. Furthermore, the ring’s brightness increases with the distance to Saturn’s centre around Earth’s crossing and decreases around Sun’s crossing. This allows to derive the illumination of the Saturn’s disc on the rings and indicates that the rings do not behave like an homogeneous scattering layer when observed or lit almost edge-on.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0252-9211
DOI:
10.1017/S0252921100101022
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publikationsdatum:
1984