Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 29 August 1975:
Vol. 189. no. 4204, pp. 722 - 723
DOI: 10.1126/science.189.4204.722
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Cyclic Octatomic Sulfur: A Possible Infrared and Visible Chromophore in the Clouds of Jupiter

B. N. Khare 1 and Carl Sagan 1

1 Laboratory for Planetary Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853

A brown polymeric material, produced under simulated Jovian conditions, is composed primarily of cyclic octatomic sulfur, although a range of complex organic compounds is also present. The polymeric sulfur, produced from the ultraviolet photolysis of hydrogen sulfide, exhibits its strongest band at 465 reciprocal centimeters, in fair agreement with the frequency of the unidentified Jovian absorber recently announced by Houck et al. Polymeric octatomic sulfur may be an important constituent of the Jovian clouds.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Ultraviolet-Photoproduced Organic Solids Synthesized Under Simulated Jovian Conditions: Molecular Analysis.
B. N. Khare, B. N. KHARE, C. SAGAN, E. L. BANDURSKI, and B. NAGY (1978)
Science 199, 1199-1201
   Abstract »    PDF »
Jupiter: Its Infrared Spectrum from 16 to 40 Micrometers.
J. R. Houck, J. R. Houck, J. B. Pollack, D. Schaack, R. A. Reed, and A. Summers (1975)
Science 189, 720-722
   Abstract »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)