Seasonal Trends in Titan’s Atmosphere: Haze, Wind, and Clouds

• Main Author: Bouchez, Antonin Henri
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: South Pole; Hale; South pole
• Online Access: https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/4274/; https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/4274/1/thesis.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-10272003-092206

I present an analysis of visible and near-infrared adaptive optics images and spectra of Titan taken over 43 nights between October 1997 and January 2003 with the AEOS 3.6-m, Palomar Hale 5-m, and W.M. Keck 10-m telescopes. These observations reveal a seasonally changing stratospheric haze layer, tw...