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Seasonal Change on Titan Observed with the Hubble Space Telescope WFPC-2

Publication date: 01 December 1999

Authors: Lorenz, R.D., Lemmon, M.T. and Smith, P.H.

Journal: Icarus
Volume: 142
Issue: 2
Page: pp. 391-401
Year: 1999

Copyright: Academic Press

Recent observations with the Wide-Field Planetary Camera (WFPC-2) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) show an unexpectedly rapid change in the atmospheric albedo contrast between the north and south hemispheres. In 1994 at blue wavelengths, the north was around 15% brighter than the south, and was expected to fall to about 12% in 1997, but has dropped to only 6% brighter.

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