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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Temperature and variability of Pillan, Wayland Patera, and Loki Patera on Io from Cassini ISS data
TL;DR: Cassini spacecraft images of Io obtained during its flyby of Jupiter in late 2000 and early 2001 were used to determine the lava composition and eruption style of three faint hot spots, Pillan, Wayland Patera, and LokiPatera.
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Kinetic theory and large deviations for the dynamics of geophysical flows
TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with the dynamics of geophysical turbulent flows at large scales, more particularly their organization into east-west parallel flows (zonal jets), which have the particularity to evolve much slower than the surrounding turbulence.
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Influence of Jupiter's South Equatorial Disturbance on jet-stream speed
John H. Rogers,H. J. Mettig +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the South Equatorial Disturbance (SED) was used to measure the speed of the eastward jet of the Jupiter's largest jet at 7oS.
An Enduring Rapidly Moving Storm as a Guide to Saturn’s Equatorial Jet Complex Structure
Agustín Sánchez-Lavega,M. H. Wong,Amy Simon,Ricardo Hueso,Santiago Pérez-Hoyos,Arrate Antuñano,Jose Félix Rojas,T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia,N. Barrado-Izagirre,I. Garate-Lopez,Enrique Garcia-Melendo,J. F. Sanz-Requena,J. M. Gomez-Forrelad,I. de Pater,Liming Li +14 more
TL;DR: A bright equatorial atmospheric feature imaged in 2015 that moved steadily at a high speed of 450 ms−1 not measured since 1980–1981 with other equatorial clouds moving within an ample range of velocities is reported.
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Wind-induced odd gravitational harmonics of Jupiter
TL;DR: Based on a non-spherical model of a polytropic Jupiter with index unity, the authors compute Jupiter's odd gravitational coefficients J(3, J(5), J(7), a broken vertical bar, induced by the equatorially antisymmetric zonal winds that are assumed to be deep.
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The jupiter system through the eyes of voyager 1.
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