Dissipation of Titan's south polar clouds

• Published in: Icarus
• Main Authors: Schaller, Emily L., Brown, Michael E., Roe, Henry G., Bouchez, Antonin H., Trujillo, Chadwick A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2006
• Subjects: Titan; Infrared observations; Atmospheres; dynamics; Meteorology; Canada; South Pole; Gemini; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2006.05.025

Nearly all adaptive optics images of Titan taken between December 2001 and November 2004 showed tropospheric clouds located within 30° of the south pole. We report here on a dissipation of Titan's south polar clouds observed in twenty-nine Keck and Gemini images taken between December 2004 and...