Team Sets Upper Limit for Atmospheric Depth on Uranus and Neptune
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 17:30
in Astronomy & Space
Since the '80s, when Voyager 2 discovered extremely high atmospheric winds on Uranus and Neptune, the vertical extent of those winds has been a puzzle. Now, a team led by the Weizmann Institute's Dr. Yohai Kaspi has found a way, based on a novel method for analyzing gravitational fields, to determine an upper limit for the atmospheric layer's thickness.