Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10701736 Icarus 2012 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Atlas is covered by fine particles, which explains its unusually-smooth appearance. ► Fine particles are accumulated from A-ring, forming the enigmatic shape of Atlas. ► The fine particles on Atlas electro-statically levitate, migrate, and eventually deposit. ► This process is working globally and erasing surface features, including craters.
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Dust levitation as a major resurfacing process on the surface of a saturnian icy satellite, Atlas
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