Analysis of Voyager 2 images of Jovian lightning

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Mar 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992icar...96....1b&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 96, March 1992, p. 1-14.

Physics

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Jupiter Atmosphere, Lightning, Planetary Meteorology, Satellite Imagery, Ammonia, Cloud Cover, Energy Dissipation, Surface Temperature, Voyager 2 Spacecraft

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Magalhaes and Borucki (1991) reported that Voyager-2 images of Jupiter contained bright spots due to lightning activity that was confined to two narrow altitude bands centered at 49 deg N and 13.5 deg N latitude and to a single region near 60 deg N latitude. This paper describes the Voyager 2 imaging observations in detail and associates the positions of the lightning features in the images with particular cloud features. The energetics of the lightning storms on Jupiter is examined. It is found that the ratio of the energy dissipated by Jovian lightning to the thermal flux available to drive convection motions is about 3 decades larger than the terrestrial ratio.

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