Planetary Wanderings
Exploring the worlds of our Solar System - Leigh Fletcher.
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Examining Ice Giants With NASA’s Webb Telescope
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From a NASA/Goddard press release on February 26th 2020, covering our Guaranteed Time Observations of Uranus and Neptune: Credits: NASA,...
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
First Maps of Uranus' Stratosphere
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Dr. Mike Roman of @PhysicsUoL has published the first IR maps of Uranus' cold stratosphere using the @ESO VISIR instrument, showing warm...
Monday, 25 November 2019
Why Study Planetary Atmospheres?
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How does looking at weather on other worlds help inform our understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere? Think of all the planets in our solar...
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
All About Space: Why Explore the Ice Giants?
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In June 2019 I was asked to provide an entry for All About Space magazine's "Ask Space" section, with the following topic: ...
Thursday, 20 June 2019
First Thermal Detection of the Rings of Uranus
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The rings of #Uranus ! We combined thermal-infrared imaging from the @ESO Very Large Telescope with millimetre imaging from ALMA to make ...
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
NASA's Webb Telescope Will Survey Saturn and its Moon Titan
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This image shows a giant Saturnian storm that was observed at mid-infrared wavelengths by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Larg...
Thursday, 28 February 2019
Ice Giants in Marseille
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In Situ Exploration of the Ice Giants
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