Saturn’s Rings Warm Up its Atmosphere - by ET_Exists
“Though the slow disintegration of the rings is well known, its influence on the atomic hydrogen of the planet is a surprise. From the Cassini probe, we already knew about the rings’ influence. However, we knew nothing about the atomic hydrogen content,”of the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris and the Lunar & Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, and lead author of the study. “Everything is driven by ring particles cascading into the atmosphere at specific latitudes.
The longstanding conundrum was trying to determine whether all this data from five space missions over the course of almost 40 years was accurate or deceptive, but Dr. Ben-Jaffel stepped up to the task and decided to use Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph to collect UV data from Saturn in 2017 and calibrate it against all the data back to 1980.
In the end, Dr. Ben-Jaffel found the same level of UV radiation from all the data between all the space missions. This finding was assisted by examining our Sun’s seasonal effects on Saturn from the various solar cycles over the almost 40 years of data, as well.
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