Saturn's temperature field from high-resolution middle-infrared imaging

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5710, 2005, Pages 696-698

  Orton, G S ^a   Yanamandra Fisher, P A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; CORRELATION DETECTORS; INFRARED IMAGING; MICROMETERS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE TELESCOPES;

VISIBLE CLOUD REFLECTIVITY; ZONAL TEMPERATURE BANDS;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

INFRARED IMAGERY; SATURN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; GAS; INFRARED RADIATION; LATITUDE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETER; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 13244250958     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1105730     Document Type: Article

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26. We thank the engineering staff of the W. M. Keck II Observatory, in particular LWS instrument specialists R. Campbell and M. Kassis; B. Fisher of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for his data reduction advice; A. Sanchez-Lavega and S. Perez Hoyos of the Universitdad del Pais Vasco for their Hubble Space Telescope data and its reduction; and A. James Friedson for several helpful discussions about Saturn's dynamics. Sponsored by a grant from NASA to JPL The tables required to look up temperatures as a function of outgoing radiance and emission angle were computed using a radiative-transfer code run efficiently with the help of JPL's Supercomputing Project.