Visible Phase Curves and Internal Heat Flow for Uranus
Abstract
Images of Uranus acquired by Voyager 1 during the 1980s were re-analyzed using improved calibrations. These images provide disk-averaged reflectivities in six bands, at phase angles from 28 to 100 degrees. These, along with measurements made by the Voyager 2 spacecraft during 1986, are being used to constrain an atmospheric model of Uranus to generate a new bolometric Bond albedo for the planet in the 1980s epoch. Improved phase curves, atmospheric models, albedos, and a recomputed heat flow will be presented.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- Bibcode:
- 2008AGUFM.P11B1281W
- Keywords:
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- 0343 Planetary atmospheres (5210;
- 5405;
- 5704);
- 5704 Atmospheres (0343;
- 1060);
- 5724 Interiors (8147);
- 6293 Uranus