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.
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Jupiter; North Pole
• Online Access: https://insu.hal.science/insu-04472064; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01774-0

International audience 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...