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Thermal Spectrum of Uranus: Implications for Large Helium Abundance
1 Earth and Space Sciences Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91109.
An analysis of the infrared spectrum of Uranus' disk between 7 micrometers and 3 millimeters suggests a volume mixing ratio for helium in the atmosphere of 40 ± 20 percent, more than for the sun, Jupiter, or Saturn. Alternative explanations require even more extreme assumptions regarding gas abundances or aerosol vertical distribution and spectral properties. The most serious difficulty with a model containing large amounts of helium is devising a credible evolutionary or chemical model explaining the absence or segregation of so much hydrogen. Submitted on November 29, 1985Accepted on January 23, 1986
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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)
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