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Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 PLANETARY RINGS APost-EquinoxView second edition Fullyupdatedandexpanded,thisneweditionpresentsacutting-edgesummaryofplanetary rings and a wealth of exciting space mission results which have greatly increased our understanding of rings in recent years, including Cassini’s initial Saturn System mission anditsextendedEquinoxandSolsticemissions,andtheNewHorizonsflybyofJupiter. LarryEspositodrawsonhis40years’researchexperience,includinghispositionasa principal investigator within the Cassini mission team, to present all aspects of planetary rings,emphasizingringhistoryandevolution.Thebookintroducesbasicphysicalprocesses andsimplemathematicalapproachesinaclear,accessiblemanner,includingN-bodyand stochastic models of ring dynamics. Further revised chapters present highlighted topics including Saturn’s F ring, Uranus’ rings and moons, Neptune’s partial rings, dusty rings, and Jupiter’s ring–moon system including information from Galileo and New Horizons. Cassiniresultsarefullyintegratedthroughout,includingnewimagesincolor,andahelpful newAfterwordlinkseachoftheringimagesintheCassini‘HallofFame’gallerytothe relevantexplanationinthetext.Thebookisalsosupportedbyanonlinecacheofselected images and videos from the NASA collection, making iteasy tolocate the most relevant andbeautifulillustrativematerialsavailable. Thisisakeyresourceforstudentsstudyingplanetaryscience,andathoroughoverview forresearchersandprofessionalsinastronomyandspace-missionresearch. larry esposito isProfessorofAstrophysicalandPlanetarySciencesattheUniversity of Colorado, 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 RingsWorkingGroup,and,asamemberofthePioneerSaturnimagingteam,hediscovered Saturn’sFring.DrEspositohasparticipatedinnumerousUS,RussianandEuropeanspace missionsandusedtheHubbleSpaceTelescopeforitsfirstobservationsoftheplanetVenus. 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 AmericanGeophysicalUnion. Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 CambridgePlanetaryScience SeriesEditors:FranBagenal,DavidJewitt,CarlMurray,JimBell,RalphLorenz, FrancisNimmo,SaraRussell Booksintheseries 1. Jupiter:ThePlanet,SatellitesandMagnetosphere† EditedbyBagenal,DowlingandMcKinnon 978-0-521-03545-3 2. Meteorites:APetrologic,ChemicalandIsotopicSynthesis† Hutchison 978-0-521-03539-2 3. TheOriginofChondrulesandChondrites† Sears 978-1-107-40285-0 4. PlanetaryRings† Esposito 978-1-107-40247-8 5. TheGeologyofMars:EvidencefromEarth-BasedAnalogs† EditedbyChapman 978-0-521-20659-4 6. TheSurfaceofMars Carr 978-0-521-87201-0 7. VolcanismonIo:AComparisonwithEarth Davies 978-0-521-85003-2 8. Mars:AnIntroductiontoitsInterior,SurfaceandAtmosphere Barlow 978-0-521-85226-5 9. TheMartianSurface:Composition,MineralogyandPhysicalProperties EditedbyBell 978-0-521-86698-9 10. PlanetaryCrusts:TheirComposition,OriginandEvolution TaylorandMcLennan 978-0-521-14201-4 11. PlanetaryTectonics† EditedbyWattersandSchultz 978-0-521-74992-3 Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 12. ProtoplanetaryDust:AstrophysicalandCosmochemicalPerspectives EditedbyApaiandLauretta 978-0-521-51772-0 13. PlanetarySurfaceProcesses Melosh 978-0-521-51418-7 14. Titan:Interior,Surface,AtmosphereandSpaceEnvironment EditedbyMu¨ller-Wodarg,Griffith,LellouchandCravens 978-0-521-19992-6 15. PlanetaryRings:APost-EquinoxView(Secondedition) Esposito 978-1-107-02882-1 †Reissuedasapaperback Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 PLANETARY RINGS A Post-Equinox View second edition LARRY W. ESPOSITO LaboratoryforAtmosphericandSpacePhysics, UniversityofColorado Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107028821 Firstedition(cid:2)C L.Esposito2006 Secondedition(cid:2)C LarryEsposito2014 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2006 Secondedition2014 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomby????? AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Esposito,Larry,author. Planetaryrings:apost-equinoxview/LarryEsposito.–Secondedition. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-02882-1(hardback) 1.Planetaryrings. I.Title. QB603.R55E875 2014 523.9ʹ8–dc23 2013044085 ISBN978-1-107-02882-1Hardback Additionalresourcesforthispublicationatwww.cambridge.org/esposito CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 Tomywife,Diane,anddaughters,RheaandAriel Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24

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Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 PLANETARY RINGS APost-EquinoxView second edition Fullyupdatedandexpanded,thisneweditionpresentsacutting-edgesummaryofplanetary rings and a wealth of exciting space mission results which have greatly increased our understanding of rings in recent years, including Cassini’s initial Saturn System mission anditsextendedEquinoxandSolsticemissions,andtheNewHorizonsflybyofJupiter. LarryEspositodrawsonhis40years’researchexperience,includinghispositionasa principal investigator within the Cassini mission team, to present all aspects of planetary rings,emphasizingringhistoryandevolution.Thebookintroducesbasicphysicalprocesses andsimplemathematicalapproachesinaclear,accessiblemanner,includingN-bodyand stochastic models of ring dynamics. Further revised chapters present highlighted topics including Saturn’s F ring, Uranus’ rings and moons, Neptune’s partial rings, dusty rings, and Jupiter’s ring–moon system including information from Galileo and New Horizons. Cassiniresultsarefullyintegratedthroughout,includingnewimagesincolor,andahelpful newAfterwordlinkseachoftheringimagesintheCassini‘HallofFame’gallerytothe relevantexplanationinthetext.Thebookisalsosupportedbyanonlinecacheofselected images and videos from the NASA collection, making iteasy tolocate the most relevant andbeautifulillustrativematerialsavailable. Thisisakeyresourceforstudentsstudyingplanetaryscience,andathoroughoverview forresearchersandprofessionalsinastronomyandspace-missionresearch. larry esposito isProfessorofAstrophysicalandPlanetarySciencesattheUniversity of Colorado, 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 RingsWorkingGroup,and,asamemberofthePioneerSaturnimagingteam,hediscovered Saturn’sFring.DrEspositohasparticipatedinnumerousUS,RussianandEuropeanspace missionsandusedtheHubbleSpaceTelescopeforitsfirstobservationsoftheplanetVenus. 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 AmericanGeophysicalUnion. Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 CambridgePlanetaryScience SeriesEditors:FranBagenal,DavidJewitt,CarlMurray,JimBell,RalphLorenz, FrancisNimmo,SaraRussell Booksintheseries 1. Jupiter:ThePlanet,SatellitesandMagnetosphere† EditedbyBagenal,DowlingandMcKinnon 978-0-521-03545-3 2. Meteorites:APetrologic,ChemicalandIsotopicSynthesis† Hutchison 978-0-521-03539-2 3. TheOriginofChondrulesandChondrites† Sears 978-1-107-40285-0 4. PlanetaryRings† Esposito 978-1-107-40247-8 5. TheGeologyofMars:EvidencefromEarth-BasedAnalogs† EditedbyChapman 978-0-521-20659-4 6. TheSurfaceofMars Carr 978-0-521-87201-0 7. VolcanismonIo:AComparisonwithEarth Davies 978-0-521-85003-2 8. Mars:AnIntroductiontoitsInterior,SurfaceandAtmosphere Barlow 978-0-521-85226-5 9. TheMartianSurface:Composition,MineralogyandPhysicalProperties EditedbyBell 978-0-521-86698-9 10. PlanetaryCrusts:TheirComposition,OriginandEvolution TaylorandMcLennan 978-0-521-14201-4 11. PlanetaryTectonics† EditedbyWattersandSchultz 978-0-521-74992-3 Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 12. ProtoplanetaryDust:AstrophysicalandCosmochemicalPerspectives EditedbyApaiandLauretta 978-0-521-51772-0 13. PlanetarySurfaceProcesses Melosh 978-0-521-51418-7 14. Titan:Interior,Surface,AtmosphereandSpaceEnvironment EditedbyMu¨ller-Wodarg,Griffith,LellouchandCravens 978-0-521-19992-6 15. PlanetaryRings:APost-EquinoxView(Secondedition) Esposito 978-1-107-02882-1 †Reissuedasapaperback Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 PLANETARY RINGS A Post-Equinox View second edition LARRY W. ESPOSITO LaboratoryforAtmosphericandSpacePhysics, UniversityofColorado Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107028821 Firstedition(cid:2)C L.Esposito2006 Secondedition(cid:2)C LarryEsposito2014 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2006 Secondedition2014 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomby????? AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Esposito,Larry,author. Planetaryrings:apost-equinoxview/LarryEsposito.–Secondedition. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-02882-1(hardback) 1.Planetaryrings. I.Title. QB603.R55E875 2014 523.9ʹ8–dc23 2013044085 ISBN978-1-107-02882-1Hardback Additionalresourcesforthispublicationatwww.cambridge.org/esposito CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24 Tomywife,Diane,anddaughters,RheaandAriel Trim:247mm×174mm Top:14.164mm Gutter:23.198mm CUUK2480-FM CUUK2480/Esposito ISBN:9781107028821 November6,2013 15:24

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Fully updated and expanded, this new edition presents a cutting-edge summary of planetary rings, including results from Cassinis Saturn System, Equinox and Solstice missions, and the New Horizons flyby of Jupiter. The book introduces basic physical processes and simple mathematical approaches in an
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