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Temperatures, winds, and composition in the saturnian system

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SCIENCE
Volume 307, Issue 5713, Pages 1247-1251

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AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1105806

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Stratospheric temperatures on Saturn imply a strong decay of the equatorial winds with attitude. If the decrease in winds reported from recent Hubble Space Telescope images is not a temporal change, then the features tracked must have been at least 130 kilometers higher than in earlier studies. Saturn's south polar stratosphere is warmer than predicted from simple radiative models. The C/H ratio on Saturn is seven times solar, twice Jupiter's. Saturn's ring, temperatures have radial variations down to the smallest scale resolved (100 kilometers). Diurnal surface temperature variations on Phoebe suggest a more porous regolith than on the jovian satellites.

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