The juno mission

SJ Bolton, J Lunine, D Stevenson… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
Juno is a PI-led mission to Jupiter, the second mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program.
The 3625-kg spacecraft spins at 2 rpm and is powered by three 9-meter-long solar arrays …

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 …

Jupiter's interior and deep atmosphere: The initial pole-to-pole passes with the Juno spacecraft

SJ Bolton, A Adriani, V Adumitroaie, M Allison… - Science, 2017 - science.org
On 27 August 2016, the Juno spacecraft acquired science observations of Jupiter, passing
less than 5000 kilometers above the equatorial cloud tops. Images of Jupiter's poles show a …

The water abundance in Jupiter's equatorial zone

C Li, A Ingersoll, S Bolton, S Levin, M Janssen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Oxygen is the most common element after hydrogen and helium in Jupiter's atmosphere,
and may have been the primary condensable (as water ice) in the protoplanetary disk. Prior …

The distribution of ammonia on Jupiter from a preliminary inversion of Juno microwave radiometer data

C Li, A Ingersoll, M Janssen, S Levin… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The Juno microwave radiometer measured the thermal emission from Jupiter's atmosphere
from the cloud tops at about 1 bar to as deep as a hundred bars of pressure during its first …

Microwave observations reveal the deep extent and structure of Jupiter's atmospheric vortices

SJ Bolton, SM Levin, T Guillot, C Li, Y Kaspi, G Orton… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Jupiter's atmosphere has a system of zones and belts punctuated by small and large
vortices, the largest being the Great Red Spot. How these features change with depth is …

Juno's close encounter with Ganymede—An overview

CJ Hansen, S Bolton, AH Sulaiman… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Juno spacecraft has been in orbit around Jupiter since 2016. Two flybys of Ganymede
were executed in 2021, opportunities realized by evolution of Juno's polar orbit over the …

The Juno waves investigation

WS Kurth, GB Hospodarsky, DL Kirchner… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
Jupiter is the source of the strongest planetary radio emissions in the solar system.
Variations in these emissions are symptomatic of the dynamics of Jupiter's magnetosphere …

Changes in Jupiter's zonal wind profile preceding and during the Juno mission

J Tollefson, MH Wong, I de Pater, AA Simon, GS Orton… - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
We present five epochs of WFC3 HST Jupiter observations taken between 2009–2016 and
extract global zonal wind profiles for each epoch. Jupiter's zonal wind field is globally stable …

Highly depleted alkali metals in Jupiter's deep atmosphere

A Bhattacharya, C Li, SK Atreya… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Water and ammonia vapors are known to be the major sources of spectral absorption at
pressure levels observed by the microwave radiometer (MWR) on Juno. However, the …