Session
Poster Session 2
Location
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Abstract
Why Neptune?
Neptune hosts one of the most dynamic weather systems in the solar system, yet it hasn't been closely observed since the Voyager-2 flyby. Existing observing programs [1,2] are too infrequent to capture the day-to-week timescales on which storms and clouds evolve, but a dedicated CubeSat could fill this gap.
The current project has two goals:
- Explore the photometric precisions achievable by a CubeSat platform
- Determine whether the presence of clouds will be detectable by a CubeSat platform
Document Type
Event
Included in
Ice Giant Watch Dog: CubeSat Concept to Monitor Weather on Neptune
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Why Neptune?
Neptune hosts one of the most dynamic weather systems in the solar system, yet it hasn't been closely observed since the Voyager-2 flyby. Existing observing programs [1,2] are too infrequent to capture the day-to-week timescales on which storms and clouds evolve, but a dedicated CubeSat could fill this gap.
The current project has two goals:
- Explore the photometric precisions achievable by a CubeSat platform
- Determine whether the presence of clouds will be detectable by a CubeSat platform
