The merger of the 60-year old Jupiter's White Ovals

Details The merger of the 60-year old Jupiter's White Ovals The merger of the 60-year old Jupiter's White Ovals

Jul 2000

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HST Proposal ID #8871

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Hst Proposal Id #8871

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Three White Ovals {nicknamed BC, DE, FA} formed in Jupiter's atmosphere in 1939-1940. Two of these anticyclones {BC and DE} merged in February 1998, generating a new large oval BE {A.Sanchez-Lavega et al., Icarus, Vol. 142, 116, 1999}.Unfortunately the phenomenon took place during the solar conjunction so the details of the event were lost. In March 2000 a second merger occurred. Visual and infrared observations carried out with the 1-meter planetary telescope at Pic-du-Midi Observatory {France} and with the 3.5-meter NASA Infrared Telescope Facility {Mauna Kea, Hawaii} respectively, showed the merger of the 60-year old FA with the recently formed BE . Each was about 2/3 the size of the Earth. Although the observations were performed under difficult conditions because of the proximity of Jupiter to the Sun, we gathered good information of the rich phenomenology that accompanied the merger. To complete this set of observations we need to retrieve as soon as possible, the dynamics, internal texture, cloud morphology and vertical structure of the new vortex and its surroundings. This information, together with our ground-based data and expected data from the Galileo spacecraft fly in May 20 fly, could be decisive to understand the nature of anticyclonic vortices and the structure of its atmosphere well below the cloud level.

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