Jupiter in 1997

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Aug 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001jbaa..111..186r&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.111, no.4, p.186-198

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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In the overall patterns of belts and zones, the only significant change since 1996 was the evolution of the NEB following the 1996 NEB expansion event, which followed the standard course: development of dark 'barges' and bright ovals, increased redness, and gradual lightening of the northern extension. Meanwhile there was a new outbreak of dark spots on the NTBs jetstream. All the southern-hemisphere belts were much the same as in 1996. However there were important movements of some long-lived spots, which led to the first observed mergers of large anticyclonic ovals. First, a ten-year-old white oval in the STropZ drifted into contact with the Great Red Spot and slowly disintegrated within it. Then, as the apparition ended in 1998 January, South Temperate ovals BC and DE began to converge closer than ever before. In an Appendix, we describe the major high-altitude cloud features revealed by methane-band images from 1995 to 1997. These are the polar hoods (which include the visibly dark south polar collar), the major zones (especially the EZ, which has changed since 1995), and some anticyclonic ovals (especially reddish ones).

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