Jupiter's polar clouds and waves from Cassini and HST images: 1993 2006

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Mar 2008

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Icarus, Volume 194, Issue 1, p. 173-185.

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For a variety of reasons, Jupiter's polar areas are probably the less observed regions of the planet. To study the dynamics and cloud vertical structure in the polar regions of the planet (latitudes 50° to 80° in both hemispheres) we have used images of Jupiter obtained from the ultraviolet to near infrared (258 to 939 nm) by the Cassini Imagining Science Subsystem (ISS) in December 2000. The temporal coverage was complemented with archived images from the Hubble Space Telescope (1993 2006) in a similar spectral range. The zonal wind velocities have been measured at three Cassini ISS wavelengths (CB2, MT3 and UV1, corresponding to 750, 890 and 258 nm) sounding different altitude levels. The three eastward jets detected in CB2 images (lower cloud) go to zero velocity when measured in the UV1 filter (upper haze). A radiative transfer analysis has been performed to characterize the vertical structure of cloud and hazes distribution at the poles. We also present a characterization (phase speed, amplitude and zonal wavenumber) of the previously detected circumpolar waves at 67° N and S at 890 nm and at about 50° N and -57° S at 258 nm that are a permanent phenomenon in Jupiter with some variability in its structure during the analyzed period. From the ensemble of data analyzed we propose the waves are Rossby waves whose dynamic behavior constrains plausible values for their meridional and vertical wavenumbers. This work demonstrates the long-term nature of Jupiter's polar waves, providing a dynamical and vertical characterization which supports a detailed analysis of these phenomena in terms of a Rossby wave model.

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