What is it about?
Persistent storms and bright clouds on Neptune are tracked to determine jet stream speed and the lifecycle of the storms.
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Why is it important?
Different color bands provide different information about clouds. Here, the visible and infrared bands are used simultaneously to determine the altitude of specific cloud features and storms on Neptune.
Perspectives
Simultaneous observations by two major telescopes are difficult to arrange, but the results are inevitably greater than the sum of the parts.
Professor Timothy E. Dowling
University of Louisville
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This page is a summary of: Coordinated 1996 HST and IRTF Imaging of Neptune and Triton III. Neptune's Atmospheric Circulation and Cloud Structure, Icarus, February 2001, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6564.
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