Ice Giant Atmospheric Science
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2020-10-20 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract
This white paper, written in support of NASA's 2023-2032 Planetary Decadal Survey, outlines 10 major questions that focus on the origin, evolution, and current processes that shape the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune. Prioritizing these questions over the next decade will greatly improve our understanding of this unique class of planets, which have remained largely unexplored since the Voyager flybys. Studying the atmospheres of the Ice Giants will greatly inform our understanding of the origin and evolution of the solar system as a whole, in addition to the growing number of exoplanetary systems that contain Neptune-mass planets.
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@article{arxiv.2010.08617,
title = {Ice Giant Atmospheric Science},
author = {Emma K. Dahl and Shawn Brueshaber and Richard Cosentino and Csaba Palotai and Naomi Rowe-Gurney and Ramanakumar Sankar and Kunio Sayanagi and Shahid Aslam and Kevin Baines and Erika Barth and Nancy J. Chanover and Leigh N. Fletcher and Sandrine Guerlet and Heidi Hammel and Mark Hofstadter and Ali Hyder and Erin Leonard and Timothy A. Livengood and Tom Momary and Glenn Orton and Imke de Pater and Kurt Retherford and James Sinclair and Krista Soderlund and Linda Spilker and Larry Sromovsky and Michael H. Wong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.08617},
year = {2020}
}
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8 pages, 0 figures, White Paper submitted to the Astrobiology and Planetary Science Decadal Survey