Neptune at summer solstice: Zonal mean temperatures from ground-based observations, 2003-2007

• Published in: Icarus
• Main Authors: Fletcher, L, de Pater, I, Orton, G, Hammel, H, Sitko, M, Irwin, P
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Gemini; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2013.11.035; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8e36322b-38ba-430e-a4b9-115b9dd0bb8e

Imaging and spectroscopy of Neptune's thermal infrared emission from Keck/LWS (2003), Gemini-N/MICHELLE (2005); VLT/VISIR (2006) and Gemini-S/TReCS (2007) is used to assess seasonal changes in Neptune's zonal mean temperatures between Voyager-2 observations (1989, heliocentric longitude Ls...