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 …

[HTML][HTML] Revelations on Jupiter's formation, evolution and interior: Challenges from Juno results

R Helled, DJ Stevenson, JI Lunine, SJ Bolton… - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
The Juno mission has revolutionized and challenged our understanding of Jupiter. As Juno
transitioned into its extended mission, we review the major findings of Jupiter's internal …

A diffuse core in Saturn revealed by ring seismology

CR Mankovich, J Fuller - Nature Astronomy, 2021 - nature.com
The best constraints on the internal structures of giant planets have historically originated
from measurements of their gravity fields,–. These data are inherently mostly sensitive to a …

Uranus and Neptune: origin, evolution and internal structure

R Helled, N Nettelmann, T Guillot - Space Science Reviews, 2020 - Springer
There are still many open questions regarding the nature of Uranus and Neptune, the
outermost planets in the Solar System. In this review we summarize the current-knowledge …

Long-lasting, deep effect of Saturn's giant storms

C Li, I de Pater, C Moeckel, RJ Sault, B Butler… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Planetary-scale giant storms erupt on Saturn quasiperiodically. There have been at least six
recorded occurrences of past eruptions, and the most recent one was in 2010, with its whole …

The orbits of the main Saturnian satellites, the Saturnian system gravity field, and the orientation of Saturn's pole

RA Jacobson - The Astronomical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Four spacecraft have been sent to investigate the Saturnian system: Pioneer 11, Voyager 1,
Voyager 2, and Cassini. By analyzing data acquired with these spacecraft together with …

Theory of Figures to the Seventh Order and the Interiors of Jupiter and Saturn

N Nettelmann, N Movshovitz, D Ni… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Interior modeling of Jupiter and Saturn has advanced to a state where thousands of models
are generated that cover the uncertainty space of many parameters. This approach …

gyre_tides: modeling binary tides within the GYRE stellar oscillation code

M Sun, RHD Townsend, Z Guo - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe new functionality in the GYRE stellar oscillation code for modeling tides in
binary systems. Using a multipolar expansion in space and a Fourier-series expansion in …

The interiors of Uranus and Neptune: current understanding and open questions

R Helled, JJ Fortney - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Uranus and Neptune form a distinct class of planets in our Solar System. Given this fact, and
ubiquity of similar-mass planets in other planetary systems, it is essential to understand their …

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 …