SUMMARY OF HISTORICAL DATA - INTERPRETATION OF THE PIONEER AND VOYAGER CLOUD CONFIGURATIONS IN A TIME-DEPENDENT FRAMEWORK

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作者
TERRILE, RJ [1 ]
BEEBE, RF [1 ]
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[1] NEW MEXICO STATE UNIV,LAS CRUCES,NM 88003
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10.1126/science.204.4396.948
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Ground-based imaging of Jupiter at visible and infrared wavelengths has been used to build up a time sequence of cloud feature variations. The global cloud configuration seen by Voyager 1 appears markedly different than that seen by Pioneer 10 and 11. In the context of historical data, these two different cloud distributions are not unique but part of a continuous spectrum of global variations. The most recent global changes occurred in a pattern which has been a characteristic trend observed many times before. Copyright © 1979 AAAS.
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