NOTE: Saturn's 5.2-μm Cold Spots: Unexpected Cloud Variability

Details NOTE: Saturn's 5.2-μm Cold Spots: Unexpected Cloud Variability NOTE: Saturn's 5.2-μm Cold Spots: Unexpected Cloud Variability

Mar 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001icar..150..189y&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 150, Issue 1, pp. 189-193 (2001).

Physics

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New 5.2-μm thermal images of Saturn's clouds reveal a strong axisymmetric banded structure centered at 45°S with discrete cold spots about 30,000-50,000 km long that: (i) lower the ~180-K brightness temperature by 8-10 K; (ii) rotate at a rate that is consistent with cloud-tracked zonal winds; and (iii) exhibit no correlation with structures seen in reflected sunlight. They are explained by variations of optical thickness of clouds just below the 1-bar level.

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