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Microwave Remote Sensing of Giant Planet Atmospheres: Considerations for Saturn and Uranus Orbiter Missions

  • Authors: Alex B. Akins, Mark D. Hofstadter

Alex B. Akins and Mark D. Hofstadter 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Achievable planetographic spatial (i.e., latitude/longitude) resolution with 0.5 K sensitivity for 10 hr on source for several current (ALMA, VLA, GMRT) and planned (SKA, ngVLA) radio telescope arrays for Saturn and Uranus. The black curves show the spatial resolution obtainable by MWRs in Juno-like and Cassini-like orbits with comparable antenna sizes (Juno channel 2, Cassini HGA). Spatial resolutions are computed using small-angle approximations; values in excess of 120° are nonphysical and should be considered to resolve only the disk-integrated emission.

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