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New cloud activity on Uranus in 2004: First detection of a southern feature at 2.2 μm |
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| Authors: | HB Hammel I de Pater GW Lockwood |
| Institution: | a Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO 80303, USA b Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA c Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA d Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA e SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA |
| Abstract: | On 4 July 2004 UT, we detected one of Uranus' southern hemispheric cloud features at K′ (2.12 μm); this is the first such detection in half a decade of adaptive optics imaging of Uranus at the Keck 10-m telescope. When we observed again on 8 July UT the feature's bright core had faded. By 9 July UT it was not seen at K′ and barely detectable at H. The detection and subsequent disappearance of the feature indicates rapid dynamical processes in the localized vertical aerosol structure. |
| Keywords: | Uranus Atmosphere |
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