Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992aj....103..967l&link_type=abstract
Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 103, March 1992, p. 967-982.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
120
Atmospheric Composition, Neptune Atmosphere, Radio Occultation, Tropopause, Voyager 2 Spacecraft, Ammonia, Infrared Astronomy, Methane, Planetary Limb, Vertical Distribution
Scientific paper
The vertical structure of Neptune's atmosphere is studied on the basis of recordings of the tracking signals received from Voyager 2 during its occultation by Neptune. The measurements began at a planetographic latitude of 62 deg north and ended near 45 deg south, and cover an altitude interval of about 5000 km. The 1-bar isobaric surface has equatorial and polar radii of 24,766 +/-15 km and 24,342 +/-30 km, respectively, and a corresponding oblateness of 0.0171 +/-0.0014. At this pressure, the temperature was 72 +/-2 K. The tropopause was detected approximately 40 km above the 1-bar level at a pressure of about 100 mbar. A comparison with IR observations indicates that the gas at the tropopause consists of 78-84-percent hydrogen by number density with the rest being mostly helium. The temperature in this region was 52 +/-2 K.
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