Sentences with phrase «jovian atmosphere»

-- Jupiter: There's a heck of a lot of chemistry going on in the Jovian atmosphere, I recall that the atmosphere itself generates heat.

The heat and flames from the nozzles come into contact with the Jovian atmosphere, which is 90 percent hydrogen, and ignite it.

Using data gathered from Juno's sophisticated suite of instruments, researchers have found that Jupiter's storms aren't confined to the uppermost layers of the Jovian atmosphere.

While its mandate was only to take color pictures, Junocam uses precision bandpass filters produced by Barr Associates of Westford, Massachusetts, including a red channel that sees into the near infrared to penetrate more deeply into the jovian atmosphere, and a fourth narrowband near - IR channel to map the abundance of methane.

She also includes a moving eulogy to Galileo, the intrepid spacecraft that mapped Jupiter and its environs for eight years before perishing in a controlled plunge into the Jovian atmosphere two months ago.

It all depends on how and when the objects strike the Jovian atmosphere.

The study also shows that Jupiter's equator is home to a broad plume of ammonia rising from deep layers of the atmosphere, a «striking and unexpected» feature found by beaming microwaves into the jovian atmosphere, the researchers say.

Six hours later, the probe should parachute into the Jovian atmosphere, relaying signals to Galileo for 75 minutes as it passes overhead.

Two half - ton steel pressure vessels simulate the Jovian atmosphere from the frigid ammonia cloud tops down to a depth of 230 kilometers, where the temperature rises to 325 degrees Celsius and the pressure to a smothering 74 times Earth's atmosphere.

These «wires» pull on the Jovian atmosphere, which spins more slowly near the poles.

In the shocked jovian atmosphere, HCS could further decompose to H and CS, and CS could react with SH and OH to yield the observed CS2 and COS..

Those limited resources mean that JunoCam's scientists rely on a small army of volunteer «citizen scientists» using backyard telescopes to flag transient features in the Jovian atmosphere as «points of interest» for the instrument to observe.

Not exact matches

And the auroras that light up its atmosphere arise not just from charged solar particles slamming into the planet's atmosphere, as on Earth, but from Jovian moons spewing material toward the planet.

Measurements of Jovian gravity suggest that Jupiter's core is large and diffuse, and microwave views show that ammonia wells up to the cloud tops from deep in the atmosphere (SN: 6/24/17, p. 14).

Stallard and his team will be taking advantage of the Juno spacecraft currently in orbit around Jupiter, particularly the observations of Jupiter's aurora and upper atmosphere by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument.

Focused studies of Jupiter's atmosphere and magnetosphere and their interaction with the Galilean satellites will further enhance our understanding of the evolution and dynamics of the Jovian system.

Dr. Sakanoi specializes in determining the variations in planetary atmospheres, such as Jovian aurora and Venusian clouds by obtaining continuous monitoring data with the T60 and T40 telescopes at Haleakala summit.

It is essential to carry out continuous measurement of planetary atmosphere, such as the Jovian infrared aurora and the volcanoes on Jovian satellite Io, to understand its time and spatial variations.

I like to think of the atmosphere like the Jovian or Saturnian atmospheres, where we see banding and concentration of clouds and compounds, flowing countercurrent to one another.