Dynamics and clouds in planetary atmospheres from telescopic observations

A Sánchez-Lavega, P Irwin, A García Muñoz - The Astronomy and …, 2023 - Springer
This review presents an insight into our current knowledge of the atmospheres of the planets
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the satellite Titan, and those of …

Cassini exploration of the planet Saturn: A comprehensive review

AP Ingersoll - Space science reviews, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Before Cassini, scientists viewed Saturn's unique features only from Earth and from
three spacecraft flying by. During more than a decade orbiting the gas giant, Cassini studied …

[HTML][HTML] Moist convection in the giant planet atmospheres

C Palotai, S Brueshaber, R Sankar, K Sayanagi - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The outer planets of our Solar System display a myriad of interesting cloud features, of
different colors and sizes. The differences between the types of observed clouds suggest a …

Convective storms and atmospheric vertical structure in Uranus and Neptune

R Hueso, T Guillot… - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

The deep oxygen abundance in solar system giant planets, with a new derivation for Saturn

T Cavalié, J Lunine, O Mousis, R Hueso - Space Science Reviews, 2024 - Springer
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 …

Jupiter's great red spot: strong interactions with incoming anticyclones in 2019

A Sánchez‐Lavega… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS), a giant anticyclone, is the largest and longest‐lived
of all the vortices observed in planetary atmospheres. During its history, the GRS has shrunk …

[HTML][HTML] Convective storms in closed cyclones in Jupiter:(II) numerical modeling

P Iñurrigarro, R Hueso, A Sánchez-Lavega, J Legarreta - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
On May 31, 2020 a convective storm appeared in one small cyclone in the South Temperate
Belt (STB) of Jupiter. The storm, nicknamed as Clyde's Spot, had an explosive start and …

High-resolution UV/optical/IR imaging of Jupiter in 2016–2019

MH Wong, AA Simon, JW Tollefson… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Imaging observations of Jupiter with high spatial resolution were acquired beginning in
2016, with a cadence of 53 days to coincide with atmospheric observations of the Juno …

Multiple convective storms within a single cyclone on Saturn

JL Gunnarson, KM Sayanagi, G Fischer, T Barry… - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
Here we describe a cyclone at 50∘ N in the atmosphere of Saturn that was the source of
eight separate convective storms. The storm clouds that appeared bright in scattered …

Saturn atmospheric dynamics one year after Cassini: Long-lived features and time variations in the drift of the Hexagon

R Hueso, A Sánchez-Lavega, JF Rojas, AA Simon… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
We examine Saturn's atmospheric dynamics with observations in the visible range from
ground-based telescopes and Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We present a detailed …