saturn atmosphere & interior
DESCRIPTION
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Named after the Roman god of agriculture, its astronomical symbol (♄) represents the god's sickle. Saturn is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth. While only one-eighth the average density of Earth, with its larger volume Saturn is just over 95 times more massive.Saturn's interior is probably composed of a core of iron, nickel and rock (silicon and oxygen compounds), surrounded by a deep layer of metallic hydrogen, an intermediate layer of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium and an outer gaseous layerTRANSCRIPT
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Saturn’s atmosphere and interior
CHARM presentation
July 27, 2010
Andrew Ingersoll
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Ingersoll, A. in The New Solar System, 4th Ed.(Sky Publishing Co. 1999)
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Ingersoll, A. P. Science 208, 308-315 (1990)
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Red = recentdata
Saturn’sinternalrotation rate is unknown
Zonalwindsrelativeto the internalrates of rotation:Voyager data
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Ingersoll, A. P. Science 208, 308-315 (1990)
Ingersoll, A.P., and Porco, C.C. Icarus 35, 27-43 (1978)5
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Cassini microwave radiometer
Relative brightness is where NH3 abundance is low. Dark band inmiddle is the ring. Bright bands out to ±10° from the equator have brightness temperaturesup to 10° warmer than at higherlatitudes.
M. Janssen and the Cassini RADAR team (2010)
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ISS: Merging of spots in an anticyclonic shear zone
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Dyudina et al., Saturnian lightning observed by the Cassini ISS
Cloud-SED correlation during 2 years.
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ISS v. Amateur Astronomers
Amateur astronomer Christopher Go took this image of a storm on Saturn from his veranda in Cebu, Philippines, on March 13, 2010.
Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley obtained this image of a storm on Saturn from his backyard telescope in Murrumbateman, Australia, on March 22, 2010. He sent it to scientists working with NASA's Cassini spacecraft the next day.
ISS captured this view of a similar storm on November 6, 2009. Modern technology makes keeping up with amateur astronomers challenging.
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Lightning on Saturn observed by Cassini ISS and RPWS during 2004-2006.
U. A. Dyudina, A. P. Ingersoll, S. P. Ewald (Caltech)
C. C. Porco (CICLOPS/Space Science Institute)
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16Cassini ISS image of Dragon Storm on the night side of Saturn
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Dragon storm Sep. 2004
see also Porco et al., Science 307, 2005
Colors are combined from images in different filters
Dyudina et al., Saturnian lightning observed by the Cassini ISS
- tall thick cloud
- deep cloud
- middle cloud
-Hole or absorber In the low cloud covered by high haze
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Dyudina, U,et al.
Lightning onSaturn
GRL 37,L09205
(2010)
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K Sayanagi
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Dyudina, U., et al.
Science 319 (2008)
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Dyudina, U., et al.
Icarus 202 (2009)
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Northern Jet Stream The hexagon is a feature in the 77degN Jet:
β
Zonal wind speed on Saturn(Sanchez-Lavega et al 2000)
Northern High-Latitude Wind (Goddfrey, 1988)
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K. H. Baines and Cassini VIMS Team
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Sayanagi et al.J. Atmos. Sci., in press (2010)
Morales-Juberaset al., J. Atmos. Sci.submitted (2010)
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Barbosa-Aguiar et al. (2010)
Comparison to Lab Experiment Study
Barbosa-Aguiar et al. (2010)
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Orton et al. (Nature, 2008). Earth-based infrared images showing stratospheric temperatures in 1997 and 2006
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Earth’s quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO). The pattern circles the Earth and varies with time. Equator is warmer than neighboring latitudes when westerly wind (red) is increasing with height
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Observed temporal behavior from CIRS mid-IR limb sounding: Guerlet et al. (2010)
•Descending pattern reminiscent of terrestrial quasi-biennial and semi-annual oscillations in Earth’s equatorial middle atmosphere.•Descent of ~ 1 H (scale height) over 4 years is roughly consistent with 4-5 H descent over 15 years needed to produce cyclic pattern inferred from ground-based observations (previous slide).•Radio occultation soundings show similar behavior extending to lower altitudes.
Saturn’s equatorial oscillation: another Earth analog.
CIRS: Saturn’s Equatorial Oscillation (cont.)
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4580-hour aurora movie in false color
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