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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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Trent L. Schindler (USRA)
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Video editor
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Scientists
- Amy A. Simon (NASA/GSFC)
- David Choi (Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU))
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Interviewees
- Amy A. Simon (NASA/GSFC)
- David Choi (Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU))
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Producer
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Videographer
- Rob Andreoli (AIMM)
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
Datasets used in this visualization
Cassini Cassini/Jupiter imagery (Collected with the Imaging Science Subsystem sensor)
Cassini/Jupiter imagery
Dataset can be found at: http://ciclops.org/
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