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Observations of Saturn's Ribbon Wave 14 Years after Its Discovery

✍ Scribed by Agustı́n Sanchez-Lavega


Book ID
102571753
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
193 KB
Volume
158
Category
Article
ISSN
0019-1035

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✦ Synopsis


A singular feature in planetary atmospheres, the saturnian midnorthern latitude "ribbon" wave, was discovered in images obtained during the Voyager 1 and 2 encounters with the planet in 1980 and 1981. Here we present evidence of its first detection 14 years later (about half a Saturn year later) using archived Hubble Space Telescope images. The properties of the recovered wave (latitude location, dominant wavenumber, meridional amplitude, and reflectivity contrast) in 1994-1995 are similar to those observed during the Voyager era.


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