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Observaciones terrestres del sitio de entrada de la sonda Galileo desde la Tierra

Orton¹, Ortiz, Baines

¹G. Orton, J. Friedson, T. Martin, P. Yanamandra-Fisher, Mail Stop 169-237, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109; J. L. Ortiz, Mail Stop 169-237, JPL, and Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC, P.O. Box 3004, 18080 Granada, Spain; K. Baines, Mail Stop 183-601, JPL; G. Bjoraker, D. Deming, D. Jennings, G. McCabe, P. Sada, Code 693, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771; U. Carsenty, DLR Institute for Planetary Exploration, Rudower Chaussee 5, D-12489 Berlin, Germany; F. Colas, Bureau des Longitudes, 75015 Paris, France; A. Dayal and W. Hoffmann, Stewart Observatory, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; P. Drossart and J. Lecacheux, DESPA, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France; E. Frappa and P. Laques, Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, 65200 Bagneres de Bigorre, France; J. Goguen, Mail Stop 183-501, JPL; W. Golisch, D. Griep, C. Kaminski, J. Hora, Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822; C. Hernandez, 9430 S.W. 29 Terrace, Miami, FL 33165; J. Kuhn, H. Lin, J. Varsik, National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, NM 88349; S. Limaye, Space Science and Engineering Center, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706; T. Momary, 3806 Geology Building, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1567; D. Parker, 12911 Lerida Street, Coral Gables, FL 33156; R. Puetter, CASS, Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0111; M. Ressler, Mail Stop 169-506, JPL; G. Reyes, Mail Stop 300-329, JPL; J. Spencer, Lowell Observatory, 1400 Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001; J. Spitale and S. Stewart, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, 170-20, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125; J. Warell, Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, Box 515, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden; W. Wild, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; G. Fazio, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138; L. Deutsch, Five College Astronomy Department, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

|May 10, 1996

Resumen

La sonda Galileo probablemente entró en una región rara y seca de Júpiter.

Área de la Ciencia:

Ciencias planetarias Ciencias planetarias.
Ciencias de la atmósfera Ciencias atmosféricas.
Estudios de Júpiter Estudios de Júpiter Estudios de Júpiter Estudios de Júpiter Estudios de Júpiter Estudios de Júpiter Estudios de Júpiter Estudios de Júpiter Estudios de Júpiter Estudios de Júpiter Estudios de Júpiter

Sus antecedentes:

La composición atmosférica y la dinámica de Júpiter son áreas clave de la ciencia planetaria.
Comprender las variaciones de la cubierta de nubes es crucial para el modelado atmosférico.

Objetivo del estudio:

Para analizar las condiciones atmosféricas en el punto de entrada de la sonda Galileo en Júpiter.
Para correlacionar la apariencia visual de las nubes con las propiedades atmosféricas.

Principales métodos:

Análisis de las observaciones terrestres de Júpiter.
Interpretación de datos visuales con respecto a la cobertura de nubes y el color.
Examen de los campos de temperatura en la atmósfera de Júpiter.

Principales resultados:

La sonda Galileo entró en una región con una cobertura de nubes significativamente menor y condiciones más secas que el 99% de Júpiter.
Las nubes en el sitio de entrada parecían oscuras en longitudes de onda más largas.
La troposfera y la estratosfera de Júpiter exhiben fuertes estructuras de ondas longitudinales en la temperatura.

Conclusiones:

El punto de entrada de la sonda Galileo fue una región atípica de la atmósfera de Júpiter.
Las características de las nubes observadas y las estructuras de temperatura proporcionan información sobre la dinámica atmosférica de Júpiter.

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