Encyclopedia of the Solar System 2nd ed

380 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 12 Telescopic view of Uranus and its five satellites obtained by Ch. Veillet on the ...

Planetary Satellites 381 FIGURE 14 Image of Miranda obtained by theVoyager 2 spacecraft at 30,000–40,000 km from the Moon. Resol ...

382 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 15 The bestVoyagerimage of Proteus, with a resolution of 1.3 km/pixel. formed from c ...

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384 Encyclopedia of the Solar System TABLE 1 Physical Properties of the Giant Planets Property Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Dis ...

Atmospheres of the Giant Planets 385 mixed, up to thehomopauselevel, where the mean free path for collisions becomes large enoug ...

386 Encyclopedia of the Solar System TABLE 2 Abundances of Observed Species in the Atmospheres of the Giant Planets Peak mixing ...

Atmospheres of the Giant Planets 387 radiation (6 bars or deeper). A straightforward interpreta- tion of Jupiter’s spectrum indi ...

388 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 2 Summary of CH 4 (methane) photochemical processes in the stratospheres of the gian ...

Atmospheres of the Giant Planets 389 FIGURE 4 Vertical profiles of photochemical species in the Neptunian stratosphere. (From P. ...

390 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 6 The diagrams in the four panels show the locations of condensate cloud layers on J ...

Atmospheres of the Giant Planets 391 TABLE 3 Candidate Chromophore Materials in the Atmospheres of the Giant Planets Material Fo ...

392 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 7 Life cycle for stratospheric aerosols on Uranus. (From J. Pollack et al., 1987,J. ...

Atmospheres of the Giant Planets 393 FIGURE 9 At a wavelength of 5μm, most of the light from Jupiter is thermal radiation emitte ...

394 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 10 Images of Uranus (left) and Neptune (right) taken in 2004 and 2000, respectively. ...

Atmospheres of the Giant Planets 395 than the dry atmosphere and so the same type of instability will not occur unless a strongl ...

396 Encyclopedia of the Solar System and months. Jupiter has an abundance of small features and the zonal winds are well mapped. ...

Atmospheres of the Giant Planets 397 FIGURE 12 One model for the zonal wind fields of the giant planets has differential rotatio ...

398 Encyclopedia of the Solar System vertically propagating waves from the deeper atmosphere is apparently more important than s ...

Atmospheres of the Giant Planets 399 Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is often and incorrectly said to be the jovian analog of a terrest ...