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Sep 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002icar..159..262r&link_type=abstract
Icarus, Volume 159, Issue 1, p. 262-265.
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During the last week of June 2001, a bright apparition of Neptune's South Polar Feature (SPF) at 70°S was observed to develop and decay in less than 30 hours, displaying contrast of ~2.5 at 619 nm. Assuming that the same SPF was observed on two consecutive rotations of Neptune, the feature moved eastward at 3.2+/-1.8° hr-1 (130+/-80 m s-1). The SPF made no obvious appearances during eight other Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of Neptune between July 2000 and June 2001, although there was a faint feature at 70°S in one image in October 2000. A prominent SPF was present in near-IR Keck Telescope images in August 2000. Bright SPFs are seen on ~10% of the HST images of Neptune obtained since 1994, and a fainter SPF is visible on another ~10%. An SPF bright enough to be visible at HST resolution was present around half the time during the last week of Voyager's approach to Neptune in August 1989, with one prominent brightening, suggesting that the SPF is less visible now than in 1989.
Hammel Heidi Beth
Lockwood Wesley G.
Rages Kathy
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