Voyager 2 in the Uranian System: Imaging Science Results
@article{Smith1986Voyager2I, title={Voyager 2 in the Uranian System: Imaging Science Results}, author={B. A. Smith and Laurence A. Soderblom and Reta Beebe and D. Bliss and Joseph M. Boyce and Andre Brahic and Geoffrey A. Briggs and R. Hamilton Brown and S. A. Collins and Allan F. Cook and Steven K. Croft and Jeffery N. Cuzzi and G. Edward Danielson and Merton E. Davies and Timothy E. Dowling and David Godfrey and C. Hansen and C. Harris and Garry E. Hunt and Andrew P. Ingersoll and Torrence V. Johnson and R. H. Jr. Krauss and Harold Masursky and David R. Morrison and Tobias C. Owen and Jeffrey B. Plescia and James B. Pollack and Carolyn C. Porco and Kathy A. Rages and Carl E. Sagan and Eugene Merle Shoemaker and Lawrence A. Sromovsky and C. L. Stoker and Robert Strom and Verner E. Suomi and Stephen P. Synnott and Richard Terrile and Peter C. Thomas and W. Reid Thompson and Joseph Frank Veverka}, journal={Science}, year={1986}, volume={233}, pages={43 - 64} }
Voyager 2 images of the southern hemisphere of Uranus indicate that submicrometersize haze particles and particles of a methane condensation cloud produce faint patterns in the atmosphere. The alignment of the cloud bands is similar to that of bands on Jupiter and Saturn, but the zonal winds are nearly opposite. At mid-latitudes (-70� to -27�), where winds were measured, the atmosphere rotates faster than the magnetic field; however, the rotation rate of the atmosphere decreases toward the…
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