RATTLING JET STREAM ON JUPITER
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the weather.
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Movie of the chevrons (dark v-shaped clouds) in Jupiter's south equatorial region, created from still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft in late 2000. The north-south meanderings of the chevrons reveal the presence of large-scale Rossby waves in Jupiter's jet streams.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
- Trent L. Schindler (USRA)
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
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Video editor
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
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Interviewees
- Amy A. Simon (NASA/GSFC)
- David Choi (Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU))
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Producer
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
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Scientists
- Amy A. Simon (NASA/GSFC)
- David Choi (Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU))
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Videographer
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, March 13, 2012.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM EDT.
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
Jupiter Weather
(ID: 2012013)
Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Dan Jacob (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Datasets used in this visualization
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Cassini/Jupiter imagery [Cassini: Imaging Science Subsystem]
ID: 645Cassini/Jupiter imagery
This dataset can be found at: http://ciclops.org/
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