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 …

Quenching of zonal winds in Jupiter's interior

UR Christensen, PN Wulff - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - pnas.org
Gravity and magnetic field data obtained by the Juno mission show that Jupiter's strong
zonal winds extend a few thousand kilometers into the interior, but are quenched above the …

NeuralCMS: A deep learning approach to study Jupiter's interior

M Ziv, E Galanti, A Sheffer, S Howard, T Guillot… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. NASA's Juno mission provided exquisite measurements of Jupiter's gravity field that
together with the Galileo entry probe atmospheric measurements constrains the interior …

Io's tidal response precludes a shallow magma ocean

RS Park, RA Jacobson, L Gomez Casajus, F Nimmo… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Io experiences tidal deformation as a result of its eccentric orbit around Jupiter, which
provides a primary energy source for Io's continuing volcanic activity and infrared emission …

Testing general relativity with Juno at Jupiter

D Durante, P Cappuccio, I di Stefano… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016 July to deepen our
comprehension of the solar system by studying the gas giant. The radio science experiment …

Contributions of Jupiter's deep‐reaching surface winds to magnetic field structure and secular variation

J Wicht, UR Christensen - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
NASA's Juno mission delivered gravity data of exceptional quality. They indicate that the
zonal winds, which rule the dynamics of Jupiter's cloud deck, must slow down significantly …

Depth dependent dynamics explain the equatorial jet difference between Jupiter and Saturn

K Duer, E Galanti, Y Kaspi - Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Jupiter's equatorial eastward zonal flows reach wind velocities of∼ 100 ms− 1, while on
Saturn they are three times as strong and extend about twice as wide in latitude, despite the …

Uranus Orbiter and Probe: A Radio Science Investigation to Determine the Planet's Gravity Field, Depth of the Winds, and Tidal Deformations

M Parisi, AJ Friedson, CR Mankovich… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The most recent Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey has proposed
Uranus as the target for NASA's next large-scale mission. The interior structure and …

Determination of Jupiter's Pole Orientation from Juno Radio Science Data

G Lari, M Zannoni, D Durante, RS Park, G Tommei - Aerospace, 2024 - mdpi.com
The extreme accuracy of Juno radio science data allows us to perform very precise orbit
determination experiments. While previous works focused on the estimation of the …

Characterizing Jupiter's interior using machine learning reveals four key structures

M Ziv, E Galanti, S Howard, T Guillot… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The internal structure of Jupiter is constrained by the precise gravity field
measurements by NASA's Juno mission, atmospheric data from the Galileo entry probe, and …