Cassini Imaging of Jupiter's Atmosphere, Satellites, and Rings

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...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Porco, Carolyn C., West, Robert A., McEwen, Alfred, Del Genio, Anthony D., Ingersoll, Andrew P., Thomas, Peter, Squyres, Steve, Dones, Luke, Murray, Carl D., Johnson, Torrence V., Burns, Joseph A., Brahic, Andre, Neukum, Gerhard, Veverka, Joseph, Barbara, John M., Denk, Tilmann, Evans, Michael, Ferrier, Joseph J., Geissler, Paul, Helfenstein, Paul, Roatsch, Thomas, Throop, Henry, Tiscareno, Matthew, Vasavada, Ashwin R.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2003
Subjects:
Jupiter
North Pole
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1079462
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1079462
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Summary: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.

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