Vorticity and divergence at scales down to 200 km within and around the polar cyclones of Jupiter

• Published in: Nature Astronomy
• Main Authors: Ingersoll, Andrew P., Ewald, Shawn P., Tosi, Federico, Adriani, Alberto, Mura, Alessandro, Grassi, Davide, Plainaki, Christina, Sindoni, Giuseppe, Li, Cheng, Siegelman, Lia, Klein, Patrice, Young, William R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2022
• Subjects: Jupiter; North Pole
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/119295/; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20230215-694122000.1

Since 2017 the Juno spacecraft has observed a cyclone at the north pole of Jupiter surrounded by eight smaller cyclones arranged in a polygonal pattern. It is not clear why this configuration is so stable or how it is maintained. Here we use a time series of images obtained by the JIRAM mapping spec...