Flux and composition of interstellar dust at Saturn from Cassini’s Cosmic Dust Analyzer

Author:

Altobelli N.1,Postberg F.23,Fiege K.24,Trieloff M.25,Kimura H.6,Sterken V. J.7,Hsu H.-W.8,Hillier J.9,Khawaja N.3,Moragas-Klostermeyer G.3,Blum J.10,Burton M.11,Srama R.3,Kempf S.8,Gruen E.238

Affiliation:

1. European Space Agency, European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain.

2. Institut für Geowissenschaften, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

3. Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.

4. Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Atlanta, GA, USA.

5. Klaus-Tschira-Labor für Kosmochemie, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

6. Kobe University, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan.

7. International Space Sciences Institute, Bern, Switzerland.

8. University of Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.

9. University of Kent, Kent, UK.

10. Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik, Braunschweig, Germany.

11. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Abstract

Cassini detects interstellar dust grains The interstellar medium contains an array of small solid particles known as dust grains. Altobelli et al. used the dust analyzer on the Cassini probe to detect 36 interstellar dust grains as they passed by Saturn, and they measured the grains' elemental abundances. The results show that, remarkably, these grains lack carbon-bearing compounds and have been homogenized in the interstellar medium into silicates with iron inclusions. Science , this issue p. 312

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7 2013

Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

International Space Science Institute

Klaus Tschira Foundation

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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