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most citedThe long-term steady motion of Saturn's Hexagon and the stability of its enclosed jet-stream under seasonal changes

60 citations

8 papers

astro-ph.EP2024★ 60 cited

The long-term steady motion of Saturn's Hexagon and the stability of its enclosed jet-stream under seasonal changes

A. Sánchez-Lavega, T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia, R. Hueso +15

We investigate the long-term motion of Saturn's North-Pole Hexagon and the structure of its associated eastward jet, using Cassini ISS and ground-based images from 2008 to 2014. We…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 1 cited

Amateur Observers Witness the Return of Venus' Cloud Discontinuity

Kardasis E., Peralta J., Maravelias G. +13

Firstly identified in images from JAXA's orbiter Akatsuki, the cloud discontinuity of Venus is a planetary-scale phenomenon known to be recurrent since, at least, the 1980s. Interp…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 20 cited

Constraints on the structure and seasonal variations of Triton's atmosphere from the 5 October 2017 stellar occultation and previous observations

J. Marques Oliveira, B. Sicardy, A. R. Gomes-Júnior +234

A stellar occultation by Neptune's main satellite, Triton, was observed on 5 October 2017 from Europe, North Africa, and the USA. We derived 90 light curves from this event, 42 of…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 25 cited

A Long-lived Sharp Disruption on the Lower Clouds of Venus

J. Peralta, T. Navarro, C. W. Vun +19

Planetary-scale waves are thought to play a role in powering the yet-unexplained atmospheric superrotation of Venus. Puzzlingly, while Kelvin, Rossby and stationary waves manifest…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 15 cited

Morphology and dynamics of Venus's middle clouds with Akatsuki/IR1

J. Peralta, N. Iwagami, Sánchez-Lavega +8

The Venusian atmosphere is covered by clouds with super-rotating winds whose accelerating mechanism is still not well understood. The fastest winds, occurring at the cloud tops ($\…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 47 cited

Pluto's lower atmosphere and pressure evolution from ground-based stellar occultations, 1988-2016

E. Meza, B. Sicardy, M. Assafin +167

Context. Pluto's tenuous nitrogen (N2) atmosphere undergoes strong seasonal effects due to high obliquity and orbital eccentricity, and has been recently (July 2015) observed by th…