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EP: Extraterrestrische Physik

EP 10: Saturn: Plasmaumgebung, Staub und Magnetosph
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EP 10.2: Fachvortrag

Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 10:15–10:30, B

Exploration of Saturns dusty environment with Cassini — •Ralf Srama, Sascha Kempf, Georg Moragas-Klostermeyer, Stefan Helfert, Uwe Beckmann, Frank Postberg, Anna Mocker und Eberhard Grün — MPI-Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

The Cassini spacecraft is in orbit around Saturn since July 2004. During the first year, amazing discoveries of the dust environment at Saturn were achieved by the dust instrument onboard Cassini, the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA). Here, an overview is given about the discoveries and achievements of CDA. Highlights are the flybys at Saturns moon Rhea and Enceladus and measurements in the extended E ring. Elemental composition of ring particles were measured and Cassini crossed Saturns ring plane at G ring distance.