A System of Circumpolar Waves in Jupiter's Stratosphere

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Sep 1998

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #30, #30.P11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 30, p.1068

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We report on the optical identification on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Voyager 1 archived images, of a circumpolar system of Jovian stratospheric quasi-stationary waves, centered at planetographic latitudes -53deg, -62deg and -67deg with averaged zonal wavenumbers 23, 11 and 12 respectively. The most conspicuous wave is detected in the 890-nm strong absoption band of methane at -67deg latitude. Its amplitude changes in a matter of days, stretching and contracting but preserving the number of components in the latitude circle. This wave has been observed during several years and seems to be a persistent long-term phenomena in Jupiter's atmosphere.

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