Voyager imaging of Triton's clouds and hazes

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Oct 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992icar...99..289r&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 99, no. 2, p. 289-301.

Computer Science

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Clouds (Meteorology), Haze, Satellite Atmospheres, Spaceborne Photography, Triton, Voyager Project, Data Processing, Mie Scattering, Optical Thickness, Planetary Meteorology, Spectrum Analysis

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Results are presented from a detailed analysis of Voyager images of Triton obtained at the highest solar phase angles; these have been fit to Mie scattering models in order to obtain the mean particle sizes, number densities, and the vertical extent of the two different scattering components of the Triton atmosphere. The 0.001-0.01 optical depths of about 0.17 micron particles are vertically distributed with scale heights of about 10 km throughout Triton. A number of properties of the haze particles in question suggest that they are composed of photochemically produced gases which have condensed in the cold lower atmosphere of Triton.

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