Amy A. Simon-Miller

TL;DR: Early Cassini infrared observations of Titan show a stratopause at an altitude of 310 kilometers (and 186 kelvin at 15°S), and the concentrations of several stratospheric organic compounds are enhanced at mid- and high northern latitudes, and the strong zonal winds may inhibit mixing between these latitudes and the rest of Titan.

TL;DR: The Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) is a remote-sensing Fourier transform spectrometer on the Cassini orbiter that measures thermal radiation over two decades in wavenumber, with a spectral resolution that can be set from 0.5 to 15.5 cm− 1.

TL;DR: It is concluded that moist convection—similar to large clusters of thunderstorm cells on the Earth—is a dominant factor in converting heat flow into kinetic energy in the jovian atmosphere.

TL;DR: Diurnal surface temperature variations on Phoebe suggest a more porous regolith than on the jovian satellites, and Saturn's ring temperatures have radial variations down to the smallest scale resolved (100 kilometers).

TL;DR: In this article, high latitude troposphere temperatures are presented for the first time, and the meridional gradients indicate the presence of circumpolar jets in the high troposphere.