Planetary Wanderings

Exploring the worlds of our Solar System - Leigh Fletcher.

Thursday, 9 October 2014

Q&A: Jupiter's Great Red Spot

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1. When was the GRS first observed and what were its dimensions at this time, please? John Roger’s excellent book has the history of the G...
Friday, 29 August 2014

Missions to the Ice Giants

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The past several years has seen a resurgence in interest in exploration of Uranus and Neptune as the next logical step in the exploration of...
Monday, 25 August 2014

Uranus on BBC Future

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Back at the beginning of August, Chris Arridge and I were contacted by Richard Hollingham, a science journalist and presenter of the Space B...
Friday, 1 August 2014

The Evolution and Fate of Saturn’s Stratospheric Vortex

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As I was preparing for a presentation on Saturn's seasonal atmosphere in Wisconsin, I managed to track down a transcript of my 2012 pres...
Friday, 4 July 2014

A Decade of Oxford Science in the Saturn System

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This month, Oxford scientists are celebrating ten years of scientific exploration by the Cassini-Huygens mission, a joint NASA-ESA ‘flagship...
Monday, 19 May 2014

Fermor Meeting 2014: Jets, Waves and Vortices

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In May 2014 I was invited to give a talk at the Fermor Comparative Planetology meeting at the Royal Geological Society, a two-day event in...
Friday, 16 May 2014

Ammonia Snow and Circulation of the Great Red Spot

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Back in 2009, while I was still a postdoc at JPL, I worked with Glenn Orton on a paper combining thermal imaging from Cassini and large gro...
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