Origin of Saturn's small moons : movies for colleagues and scientists

S. Charnoz, J. Salmon, A. Crida

The movies below show results from numerical simulation of the coupled evolution of the rings surface density

and moonlets evolution, using the code described in the Nature paper

A) Case of a disk starting with a surface density at 400 Kg/M2 (~ the current density of Saturn's A ring). You can get the movie here

B) Case of a disk starting with a surface density at 1000 Kg/M2 (~ 2x the current density of Saturn's A ring). You can get the movie here