Benzene on the Giant Planets
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Bruno Bézard; Pierre Drossart; Thérèse Encrenaz; Helmut Feuchtgruber
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We report the detection of benzene (c-C 6 H 6 ) in the upper atmospheres of Jupiter at midlatitudes and Saturn (disk average). Observations with the Short-Wavelength Spectrometer of the Infrared Space Observatory reveal emission from the Q-branch of benzene around 14.84 Β΅m on these two planets but n