Elusive Ethylene Detected in Saturn's Northern Storm Region

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1222h&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1222

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The massive eruption at 40 N (planetographic latitude) in December 2010 has produced significant and lasting effects in the northern hemisphere on temperature and species abundances [1]. The northern storm region has been observed on many occasions in between January and May of 2011 by Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS). In May 2011 temperatures in the stratosphere greater than 220K were derived from CIRS spectra in the regions referred to as "beacons" (warm regions in the stratosphere). Ethylene (C2H4) has been detected in a beacon in Saturn's northern storm region using CIRS. Ground-based observations using the high-resolution spectrometer Celeste on the McMath-Pierce Telescope on May 15, 2011 were used to confirm the detection. Early analysis indicate ethylene volume mixing ratios of 3x10-8 at 2 mbar.

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