Giant Planet Atmospheres: Dynamics and Variability from UV to Near-IR Hubble and Adaptive Optics Imaging

Each of the giant planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, has been observed by at least one robotic spacecraft mission. However, these missions are infrequent; Uranus and Neptune have only had a single flyby by Voyager 2. The Hubble Space Telescope, particularly the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)...

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Published in:Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2022-03, Vol.14 (6), p.1518
Main Authors: Simon, Amy A, Wong, Michael H, Sromovsky, Lawrence A, Fletcher, Leigh N, Fry, Patrick M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptive optics
Adaptive systems
Aerosols
Astronomical instruments
Astronomy
Atmosphere
atmospheres, dynamics
atmospheres, structure
Atmospheric evolution
Cameras
Earth
Field cameras
Flyby missions
giant planets
Hubble Space Telescope
Jupiter
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Neptune
Observatories
Optics
Orbits
Planetary atmospheres
Planetary evolution
Planets
Remote sensing
Saturn
Space missions
Space telescopes
Spacecraft
Spatial discrimination
Spatial resolution
Temporal variations
Uranus
Vortices
Voyager 1 spacecraft
Wind
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Summary:Each of the giant planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, has been observed by at least one robotic spacecraft mission. However, these missions are infrequent; Uranus and Neptune have only had a single flyby by Voyager 2. The Hubble Space Telescope, particularly the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instruments, and large ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics systems have enabled high spatial resolution imaging at a higher cadence, and over a longer time, than can be achieved with targeted missions to these worlds. These facilities offer a powerful combination of high spatial resolution, often
ISSN:2072-4292
2072-4292
DOI:10.3390/rs14061518