Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
May 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991icar...91..161p&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 91, May 1991, p. 161-172.
Physics
Optics
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Auroral Zones, Gas Giant Planets, Planetary Ionospheres, Polarimetry, Ultraviolet Absorption, Albedo, Cassegrain Optics, Polar Regions, Voyager 2 Spacecraft
Scientific paper
The present investigation of the dark hazes of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune on the basis of Voyager 2 UV data notes a geographic correlation between the auroral zones of Jupiter and Saturn and UV-dark polar regions. While the auroral fluxes and penetration depths on Jupiter and Saturn may suffice for a darkening of the polar regions by auroras' action on methane, Uranus and Neptune are found to be bright at all latitudes. In the former case, this brightness is in keeping with auroral electron energies too small to reach the CH4 homopause at which haze production occurs; in the latter case, a UV-dark band exists from 30 deg S to 5 deg N which is probably unrelated to auroral processes.
Hord Charles W.
Pryor Wayne R.
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