Dynamics of saturn's south polar vortex

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5871, 2008, Pages 1801-

  Dyudina, Ulyana A ^a   Ingersoll, Andrew P ^a   Ewald, Shawn P ^a   Vasavada, Ashwin R ^b   West, Robert A ^b   Del Genio, Anthony D ^c   Barbara, John M ^c   Porco, Carolyn C ^d   Achterberg, Richard K ^e   Flasar, F Michael ^e   Simon Miller, Amy A ^e   Fletcher, Leigh N ^b,f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUPITER; NEPTUNE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY ROTATION; POLAR VORTEX; SATURN; VENUS;

ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; DYNAMICS; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; VORTEX MOTION;

EID: 41349095660     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153633     Document Type: Short Survey

References (7)

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2. Materials and methods are available on Science Online.
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7. This research was supported by the NASA Cassini Project.