THIS IS A MULTI-INSTRUMENT PROPOSAL TO COMBINE ALL CASSINI UVIS VIMS AND RSS RING OCCULTATION OBSERVATIONS FROM 2005 THROUGH JUNE 2017 (ALL PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ON NASA S PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM) TO SUPPORT A MULTI-FACETED INVESTIGATION OF THE DYNAMICS AND STRUCTURE OF SATURN S RINGS. WE WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE VARIED VIEWING GEOMETRY LONG TIME-BASELINE MULTI-INSTRUMENT COVERAGE RECENT THEORETICAL ADVANCES AND THE NEWLY-REFINED CASSINI TRAJECTORY TO EXPAND OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A HOST OF TIME-VARIABLE PHENOMENA AND PREVIOUSLY INACCESSIBLE CHARACTERISTICS OF SATURN AND ITS RING SYSTEM.
$399,729FY2020National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA
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