Encounter with Saturn: Voyager 1 Imaging Science Results

A. Smith, Bradford; Soderblom, Laurence; Beebe, Reta; Boyce, Joseph; Briggs, Geoffery; Bunker, Anne; A. Collins, Stewart; J. Hansen, Candice; V. Johnson, Torrence; L. Mitchell, Jim; J. Terrile, Richard; Carr, Michael; F. Cook, Allen; Cuzzi, Jeffrey; B. Pollack, James; Edward Danielson, G.; Ingersoll, Andrew; E. Davies, Merton; E. Hunt, Garry; Masursky, Harold; Shoemaker, Eugene; Morrison, David; Owen, Tobias; Sagan, Carl; Veverka, Joseph; Strom, Robert; E. Suomi, Verner

doi:10.1126/science.212.4491.163

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Encounter with Saturn: Voyager 1 Imaging Science Results

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Authors:

Bradford A. Smith

Laurence Soderblom

Reta Beebe

Abstract

As Voyager 1 flew through the Saturn system it returned photographs revealing many new and surprising characteristics of this complicated community of bodies. Saturn's atmosphere has numerous, low-contrast, discrete cloud features and a pattern of circulation significantly different from that of Jup...

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