Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
Ground-based observations and the Pioneer 10 mission have led to new discoveries and revisions of previous ideas about the outer solar system. Among these are the discovery of atmospheres on Io and Ganymede, emission from sodium and hydrogen in a cloud around Io, and the presence of acetylene, ethane, and phosphine in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn, continues to be an extremely interesting and baffling object, clearly very different in composition from the bodies familiar with in the inner solar system - which is also true of Ganymede and Callisto. New data on the abundances of methane and hydrogen in the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune suggest that the values of C/H in these atmospheres may be much lower than had been previously thought. This result reinforces the apparent compositional difference between these two planets and Jupiter and Saturn, whose atmospheres exhibit a near-solar value for this ratio.
Keywords:
LUNAR AND PLANETARY EXPLORATION
Type:
NASA-CR-141170
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REPT-229
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Sov.-Am. Conf. on the Cosmochem. of the Moon and Planets; Jun 04, 1974 - Jun 08, 1974; Moscow; Soviet Union
Format:
application/pdf
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