Colour and tropospheric cloud structure of Jupiter from MUSE/VLT: retrieving a universal chromophore

Recent work by Sromovsky et al. (2017, Icarus 291, 232-244) suggested that all red colour in Jupiter’s atmosphere could be explained by a single colour-carrying compound, a so-called ‘universal chromophore’. We tested this hypothesis on ground-based spectroscopic observations in the visible and near...

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Main Authors: Braude, AS, Irwin, PGJ, Orton, GS, Fletcher, LN
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020