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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Force balance in rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection.
Andrés J. Aguirre Guzmán,Matteo Madonia,Jonathan S. Cheng,Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico,Herman Clercx,Rudie Kunnen +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the force balance of rotating Rayleigh-Benard convection regimes is investigated using direct numerical simulation on a laterally periodic domain, vertically bounded by no-slip walls.
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Merging circulations on Jupiter: Observed differences between cyclonic and anticyclonic mergers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report well-resolved observations of such events at visible wavelengths: three anticyclonic and three cyclonic events at the same time, and they define different dynamical behaviour during antcyclonic and cyclonic mergers.
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A Survey of Small-Scale Waves and Wave-Like Phenomena in Jupiter's Atmosphere Detected by JunoCam.
Glenn S. Orton,Fachreddin Tabataba-Vakili,Gerald Eichstädt,John H. Rogers,Candice Hansen,Thomas W. Momary,Andrew P. Ingersoll,Shawn Brueshaber,Michael H. Wong,Michael H. Wong,Amy Simon,Leigh N. Fletcher,Michael A. Ravine,Michael Caplinger,Dakota Smith,Scott Bolton,Stephen M. Levin,James Sinclair,Chloe Thepenier,Chloe Thepenier,Hamish Nicholson,Abigail Anthony +21 more
TL;DR: It is expected that the waves JunoCam detected near the equator are inertia‐gravity waves, which are not ostensibly associated with any visible cloud phenomena and thus may be generated by dynamical forcing below the visible cloud tops.
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Time-averages of fast oscillatory systems
Bin Cheng,Alex Mahalov +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a straightforward framework for studying time-averages of dynamical systems whose solutions exhibit fast oscillatory behaviors is presented, where time integration averages out the oscillatory part of the solution that is caused by the large skew-symmetric operator.
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TESS Observations of the Luhman 16AB Brown Dwarf System: Rotational Periods, Lightcurve Evolution, and Zonal Circulation
TL;DR: In this paper, a photometric approach was used to extract a high-precision lightcurve of the closest brown dwarfs, which form the binary system Luhman 16AB.
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New models of Jupiter's magnetic field constrained by the Io flux tube footprint
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