Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10702112 | Icarus | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
On 4 July 2004 UT, we detected one of Uranus' southern hemispheric cloud features at KⲠ(2.12 μm); this is the first such detection in half a decade of adaptive optics imaging of Uranus at the Keck 10-m telescope. When we observed again on 8 July UT the feature's bright core had faded. By 9 July UT it was not seen at KⲠand barely detectable at H. The detection and subsequent disappearance of the feature indicates rapid dynamical processes in the localized vertical aerosol structure.
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Authors
H.B. Hammel, I. de Pater, S.G. Gibbard, G.W. Lockwood, K. Rages,