화학공학소재연구정보센터
Science, Vol.269, No.5226, 951-953, 1995
Dark Auroral Oval on Saturn Discovered in Hubble-Space-Telescope Ultraviolet Images
Hubble Space,Telescope ultraviolet images of Saturn obtained with the Faint Object Camera near 220 nanometers reveal a dark oval encircling the north magnetic pole of the planet. The opacity has an equivalent width of similar to 11 degrees in latitude and is centered around similar to 79 degrees N. The oval shape of the dark structure and its coincidence with the aurora detected by the Voyager Ultraviolet Spectrometer suggest that the aerosol formation is related to the auroral activity.