Published February 2005
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Journal Article
Microwave remote sensing of Jupiter's atmosphere from an orbiting spacecraft
Abstract
Microwave remote sounding from a spacecraft flying by or in orbit around Jupiter offers new possibilities for retrieving important and presently poorly understood properties of its atmosphere. In particular, we show that precise measurements of relative brightness temperature as a function of off-nadir emission angles, combined with absolute brightness temperature measurements, can allow us to determine the global abundances of water and ammonia and study the dynamics and deep circulations of the atmosphere in the altitude range from the ammonia cloud region to depths greater than 30 bars in a manner which would not be achievable with ground-based telescopes.
Additional Information
© 2004 Elsevier Inc. Received 17 December 2003, Revised 6 August 2004, Available online 13 October 2004. The authors thank S. Atreya, J. Lunine, T. Spilker, and T. Owen for their advice and thoughtful comments on this work. We also thank R. Young, I. de Pater, M. Marley, R. Freedman, and D. DeBoer for allowing us to test our opacity calculations against theirs, and for several useful discussions. Finally we thank I. de Pater and an anonymous referee for their helpful comments and aid in the improvement of this paper. This work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 35964
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.08.012
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20121212-154823671
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- Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences