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

• 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: unknown
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2003
• Subjects: Jupiter; North Pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1079462

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. © 2003 American Association for the Advancement of Science. 16 October 2002; accepted 21 January 2003. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of many individuals in planning and executing the imaging science investigation during the Cassini Jupiter flyby, in particular D. Dawson, K. Grazier, C. Hansen, V. Haemmerle, B. Janes, D. Lytle, and E. McCartney. We also acknowledge the financial support of Cosmos Studios in the creation of atmospheric movies from the Jupiter flyby. Supplemental Material - Porco.SOM.pdf