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Estructura de la atmósfera de Júpiter: mediciones de la sonda Galileo

Seiff1, Kirk, Knight

  • 1A. Seiff, Department of Meteorology, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192, USA. D. B. Kirk, 37465 Riverside Drive, Pleasant Hill, OR 97455, USA. T. C. D. Knight, 2370 South Brentwood Street, Lakewood, CO 80227, USA. J. D. Mihalov, R. E. Young, F. S. Milos, J. Wang, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA. R. C. Blanchard, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681, USA. G. Schubert, Department of Earth and Space Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. U. von Zahn, Institut fur Atmospharenphysik, Universitat Rostock, D(0)-2565 Kuhlungsborn, Germany. G. Lehmacher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|May 10, 1996
PubMed
Resumen

Los datos de la sonda Galileo revelan que la atmósfera de Júpiter carece de nubes de agua profunda, con temperaturas que siguen a un adiabato seco. El análisis de la atmósfera superior confirma una exosfera caliente y fuertes gradientes térmicos.

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