| Title: |
Jupiter's Atmospheric Composition from the Cassini Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy Experiment |
| Authors: |
Kunde, Virgil G.; Flasar, Michael; Jennings, Donald E.; Bézard, Bruno; Strobel, Darell; Conrath, Barney J.; Nixon, Conor A.; Bjoraker, Gordon L.; Romani, Paul N.; Achterberg, Richard K.; Simon-Miller, Amy A.; Irwin, Patrick G. J.; Brasunas, J. C.; Pearl, John C.; Smith, M. D.; Orton, Glenn S.; Gierasch, Peter J.; Spilker, Linda J.; Carlson, Ronald C.; Mamoutkine, Andrei; Calcutt, Simon B.; Read, Peter L.; Taylor, Frederic W.; Fouchet, Thierry; Parrish, Paul David; Barucci, Maria Antonella; Courtin, Régis; Coustenis, Athéna; Gautier, Daniel; Lellouch, Emmanuel; Marten, André; Prangé, Renée; Biraud, Yvon; Ferrari, C.; Owen, Tobias C.; Abbas, Mian M.; Samuelson, Robert E.; Raulin, François; Ade, Peter A.; Cesarsky, Catherine J.; Grossman, K. U.; Coradini, Angioletta |
| Contributors: |
University of Maryland College Park (UMD); University System of Maryland; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC); Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA); Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Physique des plasmas; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris; Pôle Planétologie du LESIA; Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA); Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité); Johns Hopkins University Baltimore (JHU); Department of Astronomy, Cornell University; Space Science and Applications; Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Oxford (AOPP); University of Oxford; Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH); Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA); Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC); Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA (UMR_7583)); Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité); Cardiff University; European Southern Observatory (ESO); Department of Physics, Gesamthochschule Wuppertal; Instituto di Astrofisica Spaziale - CNR, Area della recerca di Tor Vergata |
| Source: |
ISSN: 0036-8075. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
| Publication Year: |
2004 |
| Subject Terms: |
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] |
| Description: |
International audience ; The Composite Infrared Spectrometer observed Jupiter in the thermal infrared during the swing-by of the Cassini spacecraft. Results include the detection of two new stratospheric species, the methyl radical and diacetylene, gaseous species present in the north and south auroral infrared hot spots; determination of the variations with latitude of acetylene and ethane, the latter a tracer of atmospheric motion; observations of unexpected spatial distributions of carbon dioxide and hydrogen cyanide, both considered to be products of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts; characterization of the morphology of the auroral infrared hot spot acetylene emission; and a new evaluation of the energetics of the northern auroral infrared hot spot. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
BIBCODE: 2004Sci.305.1582K |
| DOI: |
10.1126/science.1100240 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-03785660; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1100240 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.61FE4E7 |
| Database: |
BASE |