Impacts of cosmic dust on planetary atmospheres and surfaces

JMC Plane, GJ Flynn, A Määttänen, JE Moores… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Recent advances in interplanetary dust modelling provide much improved estimates of the
fluxes of cosmic dust particles into planetary (and lunar) atmospheres throughout the solar …

Jupiter science enabled by ESA's Jupiter icy moons explorer

LN Fletcher, T Cavalié, D Grassi, R Hueso… - Space science …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract 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 …

An improved model for interplanetary dust fluxes in the outer Solar System

AR Poppe - Icarus, 2016 - Elsevier
We present an improved model for interplanetary dust grain fluxes in the outer Solar System
constrained by in situ dust density observations. A dynamical dust grain tracing code is used …

Dust ablation on the giant planets: consequences for stratospheric photochemistry

JI Moses, AR Poppe - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
Ablation of interplanetary dust supplies oxygen to the upper atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, and Neptune. Using recent dynamical model predictions for the dust influx rates to …

Evidence for multiple molecular species in the hot Jupiter HD 209458b

GA Hawker, N Madhusudhan… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecular species in planetary atmospheres provide key insights into their atmospheric
processes and formation conditions. In recent years, high-resolution Doppler spectroscopy …

Saturn's atmosphere in northern summer revealed by JWST/MIRI

LN Fletcher, ORT King, J Harkett… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Saturn's northern summertime hemisphere was mapped by JWST/Mid‐Infrared Instrument
(4.9–27.9 µm) in November 2022, tracing the seasonal evolution of temperatures, aerosols …

Saturn's atmospheric response to the large influx of ring material inferred from Cassini INMS measurements

JI Moses, ZL Brown, TT Koskinen, LN Fletcher… - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract During the Grand Finale stage of the Cassini mission, organic-rich ring material was
discovered to be flowing into Saturn's equatorial upper atmosphere at a surprisingly large …

Recipes for forming a carbon–rich giant planet

O Mousis, T Cavalié, JI Lunine, KE Mandt… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
The exploration of carbon-to-oxygen ratios has yielded intriguing insights into the
composition of close-in giant exoplanets, giving rise to a distinct classification: carbon-rich …

[HTML][HTML] Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) Science: Planetary and Cometary Atmospheres

M Cordiner, A Thelen, T Cavalie… - Open Research …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The study of planets and small bodies within our Solar System is fundamental for
understanding the formation and evolution of the Earth and other planets. Compositional …

The metal-rich atmosphere of the exo-Neptune HAT-P-26b

RJ MacDonald, N Madhusudhan - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Transmission spectroscopy is enabling precise measurements of atmospheric H2O
abundances for numerous giant exoplanets. For hot Jupiters, relating H2O abundances to …