The Voyager 2 encounter with Uranus

Voyager 2 encounter with the saturnian system.

An overview of the Voyager 2 encounter with Saturn is presented, including a brief discussion of the trajectory, the planned observations, and highlights of the results described in the subsequent reports.

Reanalysis of Voyager 2 UVS Occultations at Uranus: Hydrocarbon Mixing Ratios in the Equatorial Stratosphere

Application of noise filtering and inversion techniques to single-channel UVS lightcurves obtained during the Voyager 2 solar occultation at Uranus has yielded tighter constraints on the structure and composition of the upper equatorial stratosphere at the time of the encounter. Specifically, atmospheric pressure and temperature profiles in the altitude region bracketted by total number densiti...

Voyager 1 at Jupiter An Encounter with Five New Worlds

Voyager 1 at Saturn An Encounter with a Multi - ringed Giant

1e Voyager project, a national enterprise involving several thousand individuals who built the spacecraft, several hundred at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who fly it, and approximately a hundred scientists who are analyzing the data, began, in a sense, with one man and his telescope. In 1610 Galileo turned that telescope toward Saturn and observed some odd appendages, somewhat like cup h...

The Atmosphere of Uranus

Cur r en t knowledge of t he a t m o s p h e r e of U r a n u s is rev iewed a n d specific ob jec t ives are sugges ted for sa te l l i te miss ions to U r a n u s . The a n o m a l o u s compos i t ion of U r a n u s m a k e s d e t e r m i n a t i o n s of i ts a t m o s p h e r i c compos i t i on pa r t i cu l a r ly va luab le for t e s t i n g theor ies of solar s y s t e m evolu t ion ....