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Heterodyne Instrument for Planetary Wind And Composition (HIPWAC)

Goddard's Heterodyne Instrument for Planetary Wind And Composition (HIPWAC) is used at ground-based facilities, often at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Subaru Telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. With HIPWAC, scientists probe planetary atmospheres for chemical and dynamical information at exceptionally high spectral resolution. HIPWAC has made valuable observations of a variety of solar system bodies, including Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Titan, Neptune, and Venus.

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Goddard's Heterodyne Instrument for Planetary Wind And Composition (HIPWAC) is used at ground-based facilities, often at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Subaru Telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. With HIPWAC, scientists probe planetary atmospheres for chemical and dynamical information at exceptionally high spectral resolution. HIPWAC has made valuable observations of a variety of solar system bodies, including Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Titan, Neptune, and Venus.

Related Publications

1993. "Temperature and abundances in the Jovian auroral stratosphere: 1. Ethane as a probe of the millibar region.", Journal of Geophysical Research, 98 (E10): 18813 [10.1029/93je01043] [Journal Article/Letter]

1993. "Temperature and abundances in the Jovian auroral stratosphere: 2. Ethylene as a probe of the microbar region.", Journal of Geophysical Research, 98 (E10): 18823 [10.1029/93je01332] [Journal Article/Letter]

1996. "Stratospheric Ammonia on Jupiter after the SL9 Collision.", Icarus, 121 (2): 431-441 [10.1006/icar.1996.0098] [Journal Article/Letter]

2001. "Direct measurement of winds on Titan.", Geophysical Research Letters, 28 (12): 2361-2364 [10.1029/2000gl012617] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Temporal Behavior of Stratospheric Ammonia Abundance and Temperature Following the SL9 Impacts.", Icarus, 156 (2): 485-497 [10.1006/icar.2001.6804] [Journal Article/Letter]