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Dusty plasmas have first been studied in astrophysical situations. Here, we now like to highlight a few aspects of dust in the ionosphere or in our solar system. We start with noctilucent clouds and polar mesospheric summer echoes. Then, we look into dust streams near Jupiter and Saturn and how our knowledge of dusty plasmas can be used as a diagnostics in Saturn’s rings.
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Interestingly, the spokes were not visible when Cassini arrived at Saturn in early 2004.
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The particles in the B-ring rotate faster than Saturn. Saturn performs one revolution in 10.2 h, the Kepler period at a distance of 100,000 km from Saturn is about 9 h.
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This statement somewhat contradicts that in the previous section.
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Melzer, A. (2019). Astrophysical Dusty Plasmas. In: Physics of Dusty Plasmas. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 962. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20260-6_12
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