Whitepaper #182 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: giant planets systems; ocean worlds
by Hsiang-Wen Hsu, Ali Sulaiman, Hao Cao, Matthew M. Hedman, Omakshi Agiwal, Nicolas Altobelli, Kevin Baillie, Tracy M. Becker, Michel Blanc, Shawn M. Brooks, Aurélien Crida, Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, Imke de Pater, Paul Estrada, Lina Hadid, Mihály Horányi, Gregory J. Hunt, Wing-Huen Ip, Nozair Khawaja, Sascha Kempf, Peter Kollmann, William S. Kurth, Erin J. Leonard, Simon Linti, Christopher R. Mankovich, Kelly E. Miller, Luke Moore, Michiko Morooka, James O'Donoghue, Mark E. Perry, Frank Postberg, Elias Roussos, Daniel Schirdewahn, Jürgen Schmidt, Oleg Shebanits, Mark Showalter, Frank Spahn, Linda Spilker, Tom Spilker, Ralf Srama, Jamey R. Szalay, Wei-Ling Tseng, and J. Hunter Waite, Jr.
Published onMar 18, 2021
Ice Giants — The Return of the Rings
Planetary rings are a multifaceted player in the system. Recent advances about Saturn’s rings argue that ring science at the ice giants, with magnetospheric and atmospheric sciences, are essential in advancing our knowledge about solar system evolution, the evolution of the moons and Ocean Worlds, and phenomena observed in the ice giant systems.
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