Nature Communications (May 2020)

Multilayer hazes over Saturn’s hexagon from Cassini ISS limb images

  • A. Sánchez-Lavega,
  • A. García-Muñoz,
  • T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia,
  • S. Pérez-Hoyos,
  • J. F. Sanz-Requena,
  • R. Hueso,
  • S. Guerlet,
  • J. Peralta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16110-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The authors analyze a system of multi-layered hazes above Saturn’s hexagonal-wave cloud tops in the visual range. Analyses suggest the formation to be caused by condensation processes, and the vertical distribution of stacked layers by the upward propagation of internal gravity waves.