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Internal Heat and Energy Imbalance of Uranus
Xinyue Wang, Liming Li, Michael Roman +13
With its extreme axial tilt, radiant energy budget and internal heat of Uranus remain among the most intriguing mysteries of our Solar System. Here, we present the global radiant e…
The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on Mars Express: a new science instrument made from an old webcam orbiting Mars
Jorge From, :, Jorge Hernández-Bernal +19
The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) is a small imaging instrument onboard Mars Express with a field of view of ~40x30 degrees. The camera was initially intended to provide visual co…
The deep oxygen abundance in Solar System Giant Planets, with a new derivation for Saturn
Thibault Cavalié, Jonathan Lunine, Olivier Mousis +1
Deep elemental composition is a challenging measurement to achieve in the giant planets of the solar system. Yet, knowledge of the deep composition offers important insights in the…
Dynamics of Saturn's Polar Regions
A. Antuñano, T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia, A. Sánchez-Lavega +1
We analyze data retrieved by the Imaging Science System onboard the Cassini spacecraft to study the horizontal velocity and vorticity fields of Saturn's Polar Regions (latitudes 60…
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…
A model of scattered thermal radiation for Venus from 3 to 5 m
A. García Muñoz, P. Wolkenberg, A. Sánchez-Lavega +2
Thermal radiation becomes a prominent feature in the continuum spectrum of Venus longwards of 3 m. The emission is traceable to the upper cloud and haze layers in the plan…
Instantaneous Three-dimensional Thermal Structure of the South Polar Vortex of Venus
I. Garate-Lopez, A. García Muñoz, R. Hueso +1
The Venus thermal radiation spectrum exhibits the signature of absorption bands. By means of inversion techniques, those bands enable the retrieval of atmospheric temperatur…
An Enduring Rapidly Moving Storm as a Guide to Saturn's Equatorial Jet's Complex Structure
A. Sánchez-Lavega, E. García-Melendo, S. Perez-Hoyos +14
Saturn has an intense and broad eastward equatorial jet with a complex three-dimensional structure mixed with time variability. The equatorial region experiences strong seasonal in…
Six years of Venus winds at the upper cloud level from UV, visible and near infrared observations from VIRTIS on Venus Express
Ricardo Hueso, Javier Peralta, Itziar Garate-Lopez +2
Venus Express provided a long-term monitoring of Venus atmosphere. Several works focused on the dynamics of the upper cloud visible on the day-side in ultraviolet images sensitive…
A chaotic long-lived vortex at Venus southern pole
I. Garate-Lopez, R. Hueso, A. Sánchez-Lavega +3
Polar vortices are common in the atmospheres of rapidly rotating planets [1-4]. On Earth and Mars they are tied to the surface and their existence follows the seasonal insolation c…
Multilayer hazes over Saturn's hexagon from Cassini ISS limb images
A. Sánchez-Lavega, A. García-Muñoz, T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia +5
In June 2015, Cassini high-resolution images of Saturn's limb southwards of the planet's hexagonal wave revealed a system of at least six stacked haze layers above the upper cloud…
Mars 2020 Perseverance rover studies of the Martian atmosphere over Jezero from pressure measurements
A. Sánchez-Lavega, T. del Rio-Gaztelurrutia, R. Hueso +24
The pressure sensors on Mars rover Perseverance measure the pressure field in the Jezero crater on regular hourly basis starting in sol 15 after landing. The present study extends…
The impact of lake shape and size on lake breezes and air-lake exchanges on Titan
Audrey Chatain, Scot C. R. Rafkin, Alejandro Soto +5
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has many lakes on its surface, formed mainly of liquid methane. Like water lakes on Earth, these methane lakes on Titan likely profoundly affect…
A large topographic feature on the surface of the trans-Neptunian object (307261) 2002 MS measured from stellar occultations
F. L. Rommel, F. Braga-Ribas, J. L. Ortiz +201
This work aims at constraining the size, shape, and geometric albedo of the dwarf planet candidate 2002 MS4 through the analysis of nine stellar occultation events. Using multichor…
Evolution of Neptune at Near-Infrared Wavelengths from 1994 through 2022
Erandi Chavez, Imke de Pater, Erin Redwing +15
Using archival near-infrared observations from the Keck and Lick Observatories and the Hubble Space Telescope, we document the evolution of Neptune's cloud activity from 1994 to 20…
Drift Rates of Major Neptunian Features between 2018 and 2021
Erandi Chavez, Erin Redwing, Imke de Pater +13
Using near-infrared observations of Neptune from the Keck and Lick Observatories, and the Hubble Space Telescope in combination with amateur datasets, we calculated the drift rates…
Jupiter Science Enabled by ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
Leigh N. Fletcher, Thibault Cavalié, Davide Grassi +47
ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will provide a detailed investigation of the Jovian system in the 2030s, combining a suite of state-of-the-art instruments with an orbital…
Air-sea interactions on Titan: effect of radiative transfer on the lake evaporation and atmospheric circulation
Audrey Chatain, Scot C. R. Rafkin, Alejandro Soto +2
Titan's northern high latitudes host many large hydrocarbon lakes. Like water lakes on Earth, Titan's lakes are constantly subject to evaporation. This process strongly affects the…
Reflectivity of Venus' dayside disk during the 2020 observation campaign: outcomes and future perspectives
Yeon Joo Lee, Antonio García Muñoz, Atsushi Yamazaki +28
We performed a unique Venus observation campaign to measure the disk brightness of Venus over a broad range of wavelengths in August and September 2020. The primary goal of the cam…
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…
Convective storms and atmospheric vertical structure in Uranus and Neptune
R. Hueso, T. Guillot, A. Sánchez-Lavga
The Ice Giants Uranus and Neptune have hydrogen-based atmospheres with several constituents that condense in their cold upper atmospheres. A small number of bright cloud systems ob…
A long term study of Mars mesospheric clouds seen at twilight based on Mars Express VMC images
J. Hernandez-Bernal, A. Sanchez-Lavega, T. del Rio-Gaztelurrutia +5
We present the first systematic study of clouds observed during twilight on Mars. We analyze images obtained by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on Mars Express between 2007 and…
An Extremely Elongated Cloud over Arsia Mons Volcano on Mars: I. Life Cycle
J. Hernández-Bernal, A. Sánchez-Lavega, T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia +12
We report a previously unnoticed annually repeating phenomenon consisting of the daily formation of an extremely elongated cloud extending as far as 1800 km westward from Arsia Mon…
The 2018 Martian Global Dust Storm over the South Polar Region studied with MEx/VMC
J. Hernández-Bernal, A. Sánchez-Lavega, T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia +6
We study the 2018 Martian Global DustStorm (GDS 2018) over the Southern Polar Region using images obtained by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on board Mars Express during June a…