The Dynamics of Jupiter's and Saturn's Weather Layers: A Synthesis After Cassini and Juno

PL Read - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Until recently, observations of the giant planets of our Solar System were confined to
sampling relatively shallow regions of their atmospheres, leaving many uncertainties as to …

Comparison of the deep atmospheric dynamics of Jupiter and Saturn in light of the Juno and Cassini gravity measurements

Y Kaspi, E Galanti, AP Showman, DJ Stevenson… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
The nature and structure of the observed east-west flows on Jupiter and Saturn have been a
long-standing mystery in planetary science. This mystery has been recently unraveled by the …

Jupiter's atmospheric jet streams extend thousands of kilometres deep

Y Kaspi, E Galanti, WB Hubbard, DJ Stevenson… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The depth to which Jupiter's observed east–west jet streams extend has been a long-
standing question,. Resolving this puzzle has been a primary goal for the Juno spacecraft …

Observational evidence for cylindrically oriented zonal flows on Jupiter

Y Kaspi, E Galanti, RS Park, K Duer, N Gavriel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The atmospheric dynamics of Jupiter are dominated by strong zonal winds engulfing the
planet. Since the first gravity measurements taken by Juno at Jupiter, the low-degree gravity …

Into the storm: diving into the winds of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76 b with HARPS and ESPRESSO

JV Seidel, D Ehrenreich, R Allart… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Despite swift progress in the characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres in
composition and structure, the study of atmospheric dynamics has not progressed at the …

Atmospheric regimes and trends on exoplanets and brown dwarfs

X Zhang - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A planetary atmosphere is the outer gas layer of a planet. Besides its scientific significance
among the first and most accessible planetary layers observed from space, it is closely …

Detection of a high-velocity sodium feature on the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121 b

JV Seidel, F Borsa, L Pino, D Ehrenreich… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Ultra-hot Jupiters, with their high equilibrium temperatures and resolved spectral
lines, have emerged as a perfect testbed for new analysis techniques in the study of …

Atmospheric dynamics of brown dwarfs and directly imaged giant planets

AP Showman, Y Kaspi - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT A variety of observations provide evidence for vigorous motion in the
atmospheres of brown dwarfs and directly imaged giant planets. Motivated by these …

MWR: Microwave radiometer for the Juno mission to Jupiter

MA Janssen, JE Oswald, ST Brown, S Gulkis… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Juno Microwave Radiometer (MWR) is a six-frequency scientific instrument
designed and built to investigate the deep atmosphere of Jupiter. It is one of a suite of …

Combined magnetic and gravity measurements probe the deep zonal flows of the gas giants

E Galanti, Y Kaspi - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
During the past few years, both the Cassini mission at Saturn and the Juno mission at
Jupiter provided measurements with unprecedented accuracy of the gravity and magnetic …