Cassini imaging of Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and rings.
Carolyn Porco,Robert A. West,Alfred S. McEwen,Anthony D. Del Genio,Andrew P. Ingersoll,Peter C. Thomas,S. W. Squyres,Luke Dones,Carl D. Murray,Torrence V. Johnson,Joseph A. Burns,André Brahic,Gerhard Neukum,Joseph Veverka,J. Barbara,Tilmann Denk,Michael W. Evans,Joseph Ferrier,Paul Geissler,Paul Helfenstein,Thomas Roatsch,Henry B. Throop,Matthew S. Tiscareno,Ashwin R. Vasavada +23 more
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Findings on Jupiter's zonal winds, convective storms, low-latitude upper troposphere, polar stratosphere, and northern aurora are reported, including previously unseen emissions arising from Io and Europa in eclipse, and a giant volcanic plume over Io's north pole are described.Abstract:
The Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem acquired about 26,000 images of the Jupiter system as the spacecraft encountered the giant planet en route to Saturn. We report findings on Jupiter's zonal winds, convective storms, low-latitude upper troposphere, polar stratosphere, and northern aurora. We also describe previously unseen emissions arising from Io and Europa in eclipse, a giant volcanic plume over Io's north pole, disk-resolved images of the satellite Himalia, circumstantial evidence for a causal relation between the satellites Metis and Adrastea and the main jovian ring, and information on the nature of the ring particles.read more
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The Planetary Laboratory for Image Analysis (PLIA)
Ricardo Hueso,Jon Legarreta,Jose Félix Rojas,Javier Peralta,Santiago Pérez-Hoyos,T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia,Agustín Sánchez-Lavega +6 more
TL;DR: The paper presents examples of analysis of Galileo SSI, Cassini ISS and Venus Express VIRTIS observations covering a large range of image peculiarities and is organized as a guide for anyone willing to replicate one or several of the capabilities incorporated in the PLIA software.
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Convective Generation of Equatorial Superrotation in Planetary Atmospheres
Junjun Liu,Tapio Schneider +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the conditions under which convective generation of equatorial Rossby waves and their angular momentum transport lead to superrotation were investigated, and the relative roles of baroclinicity, heating from below, and bottom drag were explored systematically.
Multiple jets and zonal flow on Jupiter
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the occurrence of multiple jet zonal flows in the 2D rotating annulus model, extended to include the possibility of boundary friction, and the dependence of these features on Ekman and Rayleigh number is discussed, suggesting that at values well beyond the reach of present 3D simulations, solutions resembling the observed jovian zonal flow may exist.
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How Well Do We Understand the Belt/Zone Circulation of Giant Planet Atmospheres?
TL;DR: This review is an attempt to reconcile the observed properties of belts and zones with (i) the meridional overturning inferred from the convergence of eddy angular momentum into the eastward zonal jets at the cloud level on Jupiter and Saturn and the prevalence of moist convective activity in belts; and (ii) the opposingMeridional motions inferredfrom the upper tropospheric temperature structure, which implies decay and dissipation of the zonal Jets with altitude above the clouds.
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Jupiter's and Saturn's convectively driven banded jets in the laboratory
Peter L. Read,Y. H. Yamazaki,Stephen R. Lewis,Paul Williams,Kuniko Miki-Yamazaki,Joël Sommeria,Henri Didelle,Adam M. Fincham +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the results of laboratory experiments, conducted on a 14m diameter turntable, quantitatively confirm that multiple zonal jets may indeed be generated and maintained by this mechanism in the presence of deep convection and a topographic β-effect.
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The Vertical Profile of Radar Reflectivity of Convective Cells: A Strong Indicator of Storm Intensity and Lightning Probability?
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New models of Jupiter's magnetic field constrained by the Io flux tube footprint
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Origin of the main auroral oval in Jupiter's coupled magnetosphere–ionosphere system
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