Clouds and aerosols on Saturn

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Dec 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985esasp.241...53t&link_type=abstract

In ESA The Atmospheres of Saturn and Titan p 53-61 (SEE N86-28849 19-88)

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Aerosols, Clouds (Meteorology), Saturn Atmosphere, Ammonia, Atmospheric Chemistry, Light Scattering, Photochemical Reactions, Reaction Products, Spatial Distribution, Stratosphere, Troposphere

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Information on the distribution and optical properties of cloud and aerosol particles in Saturn's atmosphere is summarized. Small particles, possibly produced by photochemical reactions or energetic particle bombardment, are present between the 30 and 70mb levels at low latitudes, and above the 20mb level at latitudes 60 deg. Several optical depths of larger, negatively polarizing particles are present over much of the planet between the 50mb level and the radiative-convective boundary near 400mb. Evidence suggests a relative cloud clearing between this level and an expected relatively dense ammonia cloud near the 1.4 bar level. The presence of a relative clearing between the 500mb level and the 1 bar level suggests that the particles found above the 400mb level are photochemical products rather than ammonia crystals.

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