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Jul 2004
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HST Proposal ID #10161
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Hst Proposal Id #10161 Solar System
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The proposed multi-band imaging of one of the most dynamic regions on Jupiter will complement recent space-based infrared datasets and will provide crucial constraints to models of Jovian atmospheric dynamics. NICMOS is sensitive to the jovian troposphere at and above the visible cloud decks. We selected six NICMOS filters with varying levels of atmospheric opacity to observe cloud features as they rotate from the central meridian to the limb, a strategy that will maximize the vertical resolution of our retrievals of cloud heights, haze opacity, and gaseous ammonia concentration. With these filters and the excellent NICMOS spatial resolution {nearly an order of magnitude improvement over Galileo NIMS images of the northern equatorial region}, we will determine the smaller-scale structure of fresh NH3 clouds and provide cloud heights as constraints for models of convection and dynamics associated with 5-micron hotspots. HST is essential for this project, since no other observatory can provide the necessary spatial resolution, and no ground-based or space-based telescopes can observe the ammonia bands we have selected.
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