Temperatures, winds, and composition in the saturnian system

被引:137
作者
Flasar, FM
Achterberg, RK
Conrath, BJ
Pearl, JC
Bjoraker, GL
Jennings, DE
Romani, PN
Simon-Miller, AA
Kunde, VG
Nixon, CA
Bézard, B
Orton, GS
Spilker, LJ
Spencer, JR
Irwin, PGJ
Teanby, NA
Owen, TC
Brasunas, J
Segura, ME
Carlson, RC
Mamoutkine, A
Gierasch, PJ
Schinder, PJ
Showaiter, MR
Ferrari, C
Barucci, A
Courtin, R
Coustenis, A
Fouchet, T
Gautier, D
Lellouch, E
Marten, A
Prangé, R
Strobel, DF
Calcutt, SB
Read, PL
Taylor, FW
Bowles, N
Samuelson, RE
Abbas, MM
Raulin, F
Ade, P
Edgington, S
Pilorz, S
Wallis, B
Wishnow, EH
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[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[2] Sci Syst & Applicat Inc, Lanham, MD 20706 USA
[3] Cornell Univ, Dept Astron, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[4] Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[5] Observ Paris, CNRS, UMR 8109, LESIA, F-91925 Meudon, France
[6] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
[7] SW Res Inst, Dept Space Studies, Boulder, CO 80302 USA
[8] Univ Oxford, Clarendon Lab, Oxford OX1 3PU, England
[9] Univ Hawaii, Inst Astron, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[10] QSS Grp Inc, Lanham, MD 20706 USA
[11] NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Stanford Univ, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA
[12] CEA Saclay, Serv Astrophys, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[13] Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[14] NASA, George C Marshall Space Flight Ctr, Natl Space Sci & Technol Ctr SD50, Huntsville, AL 35812 USA
[15] Univ Paris 07, LISA, F-94010 Creteil, France
[16] Univ Paris 12, CNRS, UMR 7583, F-94010 Creteil, France
[17] Univ Cardiff, Dept Phys & Astron, Cardiff CF24 3YB, S Glam, Wales
[18] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94551 USA
[19] Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Livermore, CA 94551 USA
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10.1126/science.1105806
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Stratospheric temperatures on Saturn imply a strong decay of the equatorial winds with attitude. 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.
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页码:1247 / 1251
页数:5
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