arXiv
Open Access
2020
Saturn's rings as a seismograph to probe Saturn's internal structure
Christopher R. Mankovich
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As it has already done for Earth, the sun, and the stars, seismology has the potential to radically change the way the interiors of giant planets are studied. In a sequence of events foreseen by only a few, observations of Saturn's rings by the Cassini spacecraft have rapidly broken ground on giant planet seismology. Gravity directly couples the planet's normal mode oscillations to the orbits of ring particles, generating spiral waves whose frequencies encode Saturn's internal structure and rotation. These modes have revealed a stably stratified region near Saturn's center, and provided a new constraint on Saturn's rotation.
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Christopher R. Mankovich
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