Cassini exploration of the planet Saturn: A comprehensive review

AP Ingersoll - Space science reviews, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Before Cassini, scientists viewed Saturn's unique features only from Earth and from
three spacecraft flying by. During more than a decade orbiting the gas giant, Cassini studied …

Mid-infrared observations of the giant planets

MT Roman - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The mid-infrared spectral region provides a unique window into the atmospheric
temperature, chemistry, and dynamics of the giant planets. From more than a century of mid …

Saturn's atmosphere in northern summer revealed by JWST/MIRI

LN Fletcher, ORT King, J Harkett… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Saturn's northern summertime hemisphere was mapped by JWST/Mid‐Infrared Instrument
(4.9–27.9 µm) in November 2022, tracing the seasonal evolution of temperatures, aerosols …

The origin of nitrogen on Jupiter and Saturn from the 15N/14N ratio

LN Fletcher, TK Greathouse, GS Orton, PGJ Irwin… - Icarus, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Texas Echelon cross Echelle Spectrograph (TEXES), mounted on NASA's
Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), was used to map mid-infrared ammonia absorption …

Seasonal evolution of Saturn's polar temperatures and composition

LN Fletcher, PGJ Irwin, JA Sinclair, GS Orton, RS Giles… - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
The seasonal evolution of Saturn's polar atmospheric temperatures and hydrocarbon
composition is derived from a decade of Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) 7 …

Seasonal variability of Saturn's tropospheric temperatures, winds and para-H2 from Cassini far-IR spectroscopy

LN Fletcher, PGJ Irwin, RK Achterberg, GS Orton… - Icarus, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Far-IR 16–1000 μ m spectra of Saturn's hydrogen–helium continuum measured by
Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) are inverted to construct a near …

D/H ratios on Saturn and Jupiter from Cassini CIRS

JDR Pierel, CA Nixon, E Lellouch… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new measurements of the deuterium abundance on Jupiter and Saturn, showing
evidence that Saturn's atmosphere contains less deuterium than Jupiter's. We analyzed far …

On the method of precise abundance determination of isotopologues in a gas mixture

ON Ulenikov, ES Bekhtereva, OV Gromova… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A method is presented which allows one to derive partial pressures of isotopologue
molecules in a gaseous mixture under the conditions of rapid isotope exchange. For this …

Changes to Saturn's zonal-mean tropospheric thermal structure after the 2010–2011 northern hemisphere storm

RK Achterberg, PJ Gierasch, BJ Conrath… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We use far-infrared (20–200 μm) data from the Composite Infrared
Spectrometer on the Cassini spacecraft to determine the zonal-mean temperature and …

Far-infrared 14NH3 line positions and intensities measured with a FT-IR and AILES beamline, Synchrotron SOLEIL

K Sung, S Yu, J Pearson, O Pirali, FK Tchana… - Journal of Molecular …, 2016 - Elsevier
Extensive measurements of line positions and intensities are reported for the inversion-
rotation and rovibrational transitions of 14 NH 3 in the 50–660 cm− 1 region. This study …