RATTLING JET STREAM ON JUPITER

  • Released Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:53PM
  • ID: 10927

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.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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  • Jupiter Weather (ID: 2012013)
    Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 4:00AM
    Produced by - Dan Jacob

Datasets used in this visualization

  • Cassini Cassini/Jupiter imagery

    ID: 645
    Mosaic Collected with Imaging Science Subsystem Cassini Imagery/Central Laboratory for OPerations October 2000 - December 2000

    Cassini/Jupiter imagery

    This dataset can be found at: http://ciclops.org/

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