Saturn and Surface (IMAGE)

Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Saturn and Surface

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The modelling of phenomena observed in spectroscopic studies of material surfaces employs function discovered by S. Chandrasekhar in analysing interaction of light with atmospheres of giant planets. New algorithm for calculating the values of the function, much more accurate and a few dozen times faster than the existing algorithms, has been developed at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Left image: Saturn, the second largest gas giant in Solar System, and its moon Titan, from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Right image: Surface of activated charcoal NORIT as seen by the scanning electron microscope FEI Nova NanoSEM 450 (mag. 5000x, false colors).

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute, IPC PAS

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