The Saturn Ring Skimmer Mission Concept: The next step to explore Saturn's rings, atmosphere, interior, and inner magnetosphere
Matthew S. Tiscareno, Mar Vaquero, Matthew M. Hedman, Hao Cao, Paul R., Estrada, Andrew P. Ingersoll, Kelly E. Miller, Marzia Parisi, David. H., Atkinson, Shawn M. Brooks, Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, James Fuller, Amanda R. Hendrix,, Robert E. Johnson, Tommi Koskinen, William S. Kurth

TL;DR
The Saturn Ring Skimmer mission concept aims to explore Saturn's rings, atmosphere, and interior, providing new insights into planetary systems and astrophysical disks through innovative observational techniques.
Contribution
It introduces a novel mission concept to study Saturn's rings and magnetosphere, enabling unprecedented observations of particles, composition, and dynamical processes.
Findings
First direct observations of individual particles in Saturn's rings
Constraints on the origin and evolution of Saturn's rings
Insights into the interconnected system of rings, magnetosphere, and planet
Abstract
The innovative Saturn Ring Skimmer mission concept enables a wide range of investigations that address fundamental questions about Saturn and its rings, as well as giant planets and astrophysical disk systems in general. This mission would provide new insights into the dynamical processes that operate in astrophysical disk systems by observing individual particles in Saturn's rings for the first time. The Ring Skimmer would also constrain the origin, history, and fate of Saturn's rings by determining their compositional evolution and material transport rates. In addition, the Ring Skimmer would reveal how the rings, magnetosphere, and planet operate as an inter-connected system by making direct measurements of the ring's atmosphere, Saturn's inner magnetosphere and the material owing from the rings into the planet. At the same time, this mission would clarify the dynamical processes…
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