Time variability of Neptune’s horizontal and vertical cloud structure revealed by VLT/SINFONI and Gemini/NIFS from 2009 to 2013

<p>New observations of Neptune’s clouds in the near infrared were acquired in October 2013 with SINFONI on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. SINFONI is an Integral Field Unit spectrometer returning a 64 × 64 pixel image with 2048 wavelengths. Image cubes in the J-band (1.09 – 1.41 μm)...

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Main Authors: Irwin, PGJ, Fletcher, LN, Tice, D, Owen, SJ, Orton, GS, Teanby, NA, Davis, GR
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016