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A twist on periodicity at Saturn

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Saturn's nominal rotation period is timed by a 'radio clock' that counts bursts of emissions controlled by the planet's magnetic field. Buffeting by the solar wind may explain the clock's irregularities.

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Figure 1: Generation of radio emissions at Saturn.

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  1. Margaret Galland Kivelson is at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 6843 Slichter Hall, Los Angeles, California 90095-1567, USA. mkivelson@igpp.ucla.edu ,

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Kivelson, M. A twist on periodicity at Saturn. Nature 450, 178–179 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/450178a

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