Research Article
In situ collection of dust grains falling from Saturn’s rings into its atmosphere
- Hsiang-Wen Hsu1,*,
- Jürgen Schmidt2,
- Sascha Kempf1,
- Frank Postberg3,4,
- Georg Moragas-Klostermeyer5,
- Martin Seiß6,
- Holger Hoffmann6,
- Marcia Burton7,
- ShengYi Ye8,
- William S. Kurth8,
- Mihály Horányi1,
- Nozair Khawaja3,4,
- Frank Spahn6,
- Daniel Schirdewahn6,
- James O’Donoghue9,
- Luke Moore10,
- Jeff Cuzzi11,
- Geraint H. Jones12,13,
- Ralf Srama5,14
- 1Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado–Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.
- 2Astronomy Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
- 3Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
- 4Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- 5Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
- 6Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
- 7Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA.
- 8Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
- 9NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.
- 10Center for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
- 11NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.
- 12Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, UK.
- 13The Centre for Planetary Sciences at University College London/Birkbeck, London, UK.
- 14Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA.
- ↵*Corresponding author. Email: sean.hsu{at}lasp.colorado.edu
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Science 05 Oct 2018:
Vol. 362, Issue 6410, eaat3185
DOI: 10.1126/science.aat3185
