| Title: |
Temperatures, Winds, and Composition in the Saturnian System |
| Authors: |
Flasar, F. M.; Achterberg, R. K.; Conrath, B. J.; Pearl, J. C.; Bjoraker, G. L.; Jennings, D. E.; Romani, P. N.; Simon-Miller, A. A.; Kunde, V. G.; Nixon, C. A.; Bézard, B.; Orton, G. S.; Spilker, L. J.; Spencer, J. R.; Irwin, P. G. J.; Teanby, N. A.; Owen, T. C.; Brasunas, J.; Segura, M. E.; Carlson, R. C.; Mamoutkine, A.; Gierasch, P. J.; Schinder, P. J.; Showalter, M. R.; Ferrari, C.; Barucci, A.; Courtin, R.; Coustenis, A.; Fouchet, T.; Gautier, D.; Lellouch, E.; Marten, A.; Prangé, R.; Strobel, D. F.; Calcutt, S. B.; Read, P. L.; Taylor, F. W.; Bowles, N.; Samuelson, R. E.; Abbas, M. M.; Raulin, F.; Ade, P.; Edgington, S.; Pilorz, S.; Wallis, B.; Wishnow, E. H. |
| Source: |
Science ; volume 307, issue 5713, page 1247-1251 ; ISSN 0036-8075 1095-9203 |
| Publisher Information: |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
| Publication Year: |
2005 |
| Description: |
Stratospheric temperatures on Saturn imply a strong decay of the equatorial winds with altitude. If the decrease in winds reported from recent Hubble Space Telescope images is not a temporal change, then the features tracked must have been at least 130 kilometers higher than in earlier studies. Saturn's south polar stratosphere is warmer than predicted from simple radiative models. The C/H ratio on Saturn is seven times solar, twice Jupiter's. Saturn's ring temperatures have radial variations down to the smallest scale resolved (100 kilometers). Diurnal surface temperature variations on Phoebe suggest a more porous regolith than on the jovian satellites. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1126/science.1105806 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1105806; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1105806 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.473B9A8C |
| Database: |
BASE |