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
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Jovian atmospheric dynamics: An update after Galileo and Cassini
TL;DR: A forward modelling approach has been used to relate observations at cloud level to models of shallow or deep jet structure as mentioned in this paper. But the model cannot reproduce all of the observed phenomena, including the stability of Jupiter's zonal jets and the evolution of vortices.
Journal ArticleDOI
Cassini Imaging Science: Instrument Characteristics And Anticipated Scientific Investigations At Saturn
Carolyn C. Porco,Robert West,Steven Squyres,Alfred S. McEwen,Peter C. Thomas,Carl D. Murray,Anthony D. DelGenio,Andrew P. Ingersoll,Torrence V. Johnson,Gerhard Neukum,J. Veverka,Luke Dones,André Brahic,Joseph A. Burns,Vance Haemmerle,Benjamin Knowles,Douglas Dawson,Thomas Roatsch,K. Beurle,William M. Owen +19 more
TL;DR: The Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) is the highest-resolution two-dimensional imaging device on the Cassini Orbiter and has been designed for investigations of the bodies and phenomena found within the Saturnian planetary system.
Journal ArticleDOI
Simulation of equatorial and high-latitude jets on Jupiter in a deep convection model.
TL;DR: This work presents a numerical model of three-dimensional rotating convection in a relatively thin spherical shell that generates both types of jets and implies that Jupiter's latitudinal transition in jet width corresponds to a separation between the bottom-bounded flow structures in higher latitudes and the deep equatorial flows.
Book
Atmospheric Evolution on Inhabited and Lifeless Worlds
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the current understanding of the atmospheric evolution and climate on Earth, on other rocky planets within our Solar System, and on planets far beyond.
Journal ArticleDOI
Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere
TL;DR: Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere (JPLM) as discussed by the authors is an encyclopedic volume that summarizes current knowledge of the Jovian system.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Hydromagnetic Constraints on Deep Zonal Flow in the Giant Planets
TL;DR: In this article, a simple model of the equatorial zonal jet in which the flow is assumed uniform on cylinders concentric with the spin axis, and viscous and magnetic torques on each cylinder are balanced is presented.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Three-Dimensional Model of Moist Convection for the Giant Planets: The Jupiter Case
TL;DR: In this article, a three-dimensional cloud model for the study of formation and evolution of moist convective storms on the giant planets has been presented, which is a finite-difference model that solves the dynamic and thermodynamic equations forward in time under the anelastic approximation including microphysics in a parameterized form.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Pele Plume (Io): Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope
John R. Spencer,Paola Sartoretti,Gilda E. Ballester,Alfred S. McEwen,John Clarke,Melissa A. McGrath +5 more
TL;DR: The first definitive observation of an Io plume from Earth was made by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in 1996 as discussed by the authors, with the Pele plume silhouetted against Jupiter at a wavelength of 0.27µm.
Journal ArticleDOI
Spatial Organization and Time Dependence of Jupiter's Tropospheric Temperatures, 1980-1993.
Glenn S. Orton,A. James Friedson,P. Yanamandra-Fisher,John H. Caldwell,Heidi B. Hammel,Kevin H. Baines,Jay T. Bergstralh,Terry Z. Martin,Robert A. West,Glenn J. Veeder,David K. Lynch,Ray W. Russell,Michael E. Malcom,W. Golisch,D. Griep,C. Kaminski,Alan T. Tokunaga,Tom Herbst,Mark A. Shure +18 more
TL;DR: Evidence was found for a quasi-periodic oscillation of temperatures in the Equatorial Zone, a correlation between tropospheric and stratospheric waves in the North Equatorial Belt, and slowly moving thermal features in theNorth and South Equatorial Belts.
Journal ArticleDOI
Analysis of Voyager 2 images of Jovian lightning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the energy dissipated by Jovian lightning to the thermal flux available to drive convection motions is about 3 decades larger than the terrestrial ratio.