Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006mnras.369.1683l&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 369, Issue 4, pp. 1683-1687.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Planets And Satellites: Individual: Titan: Ultraviolet: Solar System, Planets And Satellites: Individual: Titan, Ultraviolet: Solar System
Scientific paper
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has a dense organic-laden atmosphere that displays dramatic seasonal variations in composition and appearance. Here we document the evolution of the dark polar hood, first seen in 1980 by Voyager 1 around the north pole, and report quantitative measurements of the hood's disappearance from the south pole in 2002-2003 using previously unpublished observations with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (HST/ACS). These data support a model of the hood as a transient structure associated with downwelling during polar winter.
Lemmon Mark Thomas
Lorenz Ralph D.
Smith Peter H.
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