<br />
IN ThIs Issue:<br />
Seeking WIMPY Particles • Exploring Saturn’s Rings<br />
• Picking Five-Star Movies<br />
California Institute of Technology<br />
Volume lXXIII, Number 2, sprINg 2010<br />
on the cover<br />
Saturn’s rings are made of particles ranging from tiny pieces of dust to huge boul-<br />
ders. on May 3, 2005, the cassini spacecraft sent radio signals back to earth through<br />
the rings to measure the particles’ size distribution. In this simulated image, which<br />
has a resolution of 10 kilometers, purple represents regions where all the particles<br />
are bigger than five centimeters wide. Green areas contain particles smaller than five<br />
centimeters, and blue ones have particles smaller than one centimeter. the white<br />
zones are so dense that the signal didn’t get through<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=1"> IN ThIs Issue: Seeking WIMPY Particles • Explorin</a>
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<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=16"> A Mine for Dark Matter Res</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=17"> Each CDMS detector is a 230- gram ge</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=18"> In addition to CDMS, Golwala’s research group wor</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=19"> A composite image of the Bullet Cluster, which i</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=20"> ore. It closed in 1962, and is now a state park a</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=21"> Far left: The Soudan mineshaft in winter. Middle:</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=22"> The barn was born during the Manhattan Pr</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=23"> WIMPs have cross sections bigger than this limit,</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=24"> Cassini’s Ringside Seat Saturn’s rings and moons </a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=25"> Opposite: Linda Spilker, Cassini’s project sci- e</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=26"> The gravitational pull of a tiny moon named Daphn</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=27"> Watch Porco discuss Cassini’s and Huygen’s explor</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=28"> with it. Orbital resonance then keeps these parti</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=29"> the B ring, because it is so optically thick.” </a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=30"> Below: A natural-color shot of icy Dione, snapped</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=31"> The propellers in context. The leftmost photo sho</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=32"> the way in which Enceladus is generating heat—and</a>
<a title="Engineering & Science Spring 2010 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6e52b3ac?page=33"> “The geysers of Enceladus,” says Porco, “are perh</a>
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