A New Look at the Saturn System: The Voyager 2 Images

@article{Smith1982ANL,  title={A New Look at the Saturn System: The Voyager 2 Images},  author={Bradford A. Smith and Laurence A. Soderblom and Raymond M. Batson and Patricia Bridges and Jay L. Inge and Harold Masursky and Eugene Merle Shoemaker and Reta Beebe and Joseph M. Boyce and Geoffrey A. Briggs and Anne Bunker and S. A. Collins and Candice J. Hansen and Torrence V. Johnson and Jim L. Mitchell and Richard Terrile and Allan F. Cook and Jeff C. Cuzzi and James B. Pollack and G. E. Danielson and Andrew P. Ingersoll and Merton E. Davies and Garry E. Hunt and David R. Morrison and T. R. E. Owen and Carl E. Sagan and Joseph Frank Veverka and Robert Strom and Verner E. Suomi},  journal={Science},  year={1982},  volume={215},  pages={504 - 537},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:23835071}}
Within Saturn's rings, the "birth" of a spoke has been observed, and surprising azimuthal and time variability is found in the ringlet structure of the outer B ring, leading to speculations about Saturn's internal structure and about the collisional and thermal history of the rings and satellites.

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