The Influence of Thermal Inertia on Temperatures and Frost Stability on Triton

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  • JEFFREY M. MOORE
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Seasonal subsurface heat conduction can have a large influence on Triton’s N, frost distribution. Increasing surface thermal inertia reduces the thickness and extent of seasonal N, frosts. If the thermal inertia of the nonvolatile substrate is greater than about 30% of the value for nonporous Hz0 or CO,, or if nonporous Hz0 or CO, is overlaid by a porous regolith of low thermal inertia but less than a few meters thick, the northernmost latitudes visible to Voyager should have been frost-free at the time of the encounter, possibly accounting for their relatively low albedo. If the substrate in the northern hemisphere has sufficiently low albedo and/or emissivity and also has a thermal inertia comparable to that of nonporous H,O or C02, there may be no seasonal or permanent N, deposits in the northern hemisphere at all. Because this model, like previous ones, predicts a monotonic recession of permanent N2 deposits toward the poles and very limited seasonal N, frost in the southern hemisphere at Voyager time, and because of new spectroscopic evidence for nonvolatile CO, on Triton’s bright southern hemisphere, we consider it possible that much of the bright material on Triton’s southern hemisphere is not N,. Bright nonvolatiles in the southern hemisphere may allow seasonal N, frosts to form there during the southern summer, possibly helping to explain T&on’s spectroscopic changes during the past decade. All the models considered here predict lo-fold or greater seasonal variations in atmospheric pressure, with pressure currently increasing in high-thermal-inertia models and decreasing in models with low thermal inertia. 0 1~ Academic PKSS, IIIC.

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تاریخ انتشار 2002