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Infrared Astronomy Takes Saturn's Temperature

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Richard Gaughan, Contributing Editor

As anyone who has been caught in a rainstorm without an umbrella can testify, weather modeling and prediction are not exact sciences. Although the basic physics underlying atmospheric dynamics is relatively straightforward, complexity grows rapidly as the scale of the interactions increases. That is one reason why scientists are interested in investigating weather on other planets. Researchers used the 10-m Keck I telescope to investigate temperature variations in the atmosphere of Saturn. This mosaic combines 35 exposures of the ringed planet and reveals a localized hot spot at the south...Read full article

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    Published: April 2005
    atmospheric dynamicsFeatureslong-wavelength spectrometerspectroscopy

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