Heating up the guts of gas giants
Hot Jupiters are eponymously hot from outside. How does this heat affect their atmospheres and deep interiors?
Hot Jupiters are eponymously hot from outside. How does this heat affect their atmospheres and deep interiors?
Mapping the atmospheres and surfaces of exoplanets is ailed by degeneracies due to the choice of map structure and orbital parameter uncertainties. Today’s paper attempts to solve this by using a principal component analysis approach.
Scrutinizing a popular method of characterizing exoplanet atmospheres reveals an inherent degeneracy that may only be overcome in special cases.
For life as we know it, atmospheric composition plays a huge part in planetary habitability. Today we explore a theoretical framework for characterizing and predicting planetary atmospheres, and how that framework can help in the search for Earth-like life on planets beyond our own.
Slowly-rotating Venus has some seriously speedy clouds. Using near-infrared images from Japan’s first Venus orbiter, Horinouchi and collaborators study the atmospheric dynamics of our strange sister planet.
It’s our innate human instinct to uncover mysteries. Find out how Spitzer observations of 55 Cnc e are raising new questions and creating new mysteries that could be addressed with the next generation of ground and space based missions.