The abundance of water on Jupiter from the Voyager IRIS data at 5 microns

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Dec 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982icar...52..483d&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 52, Dec. 1982, p. 483-491.

Computer Science

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Atmospheric Composition, Infrared Spectra, Jupiter Atmosphere, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Water, Atmospheric Models, Atmospheric Temperature, Iris Satellites, Planetary Composition, Spectrum Analysis

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The abundance of H2O is derived from the 1900- to 2100-cm wavelength region of the Voyager 1 IRIS spectra. Scale variations of about a factor of 2 are seen in the water abundance between the North and South Equatorial Belts (NEB and SEB). Averaged over the full disk, the mixing ratio is H2O/H2 equals (4.0 plus or minus 1.0) x 10 to the -6th, if H2O is uniformly mixed in the atmospheric region having temperatures of 230 to 270 K; this result implies a solar depletion by a factor of 100 in this region. In the belts, the best agreement is obtained for a H2O/H2 mixing ratio of 4.0 x 10 to the -6th in the NEB and 7.2 x 10 to the -6th in the SEB, assuming a constant mixing ratio.

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