Microwave remote sensing of Jupiter's atmosphere from an orbiting spacecraft

被引：46
作者：
Janssen, MA
Hofstadter, MD
Gulkis, S
Ingersoll, AP
Allison, M
Bolton, SJ
Levin, SM
Kamp, LW
机构：
[1] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
[2] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[3] NASA, Goddard Inst Space Studies, New York, NY 10025 USA
来源：
ICARUS | 2005年 / 173卷 / 02期
关键词：
Jupiter; atmosphere; abundances; interior; radio observations; radiative transfer;
D O I：
10.1016/j.icarus.2004.08.012
中图分类号：
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号：
0704 ;
摘要：
Microwave remote sounding from a spacecraft flying by or in orbit around Jupiter offers new possibilities for retrieving important and presently Poorly understood properties of its atmosphere. In particular, we show that precise measurements of relative brightness temperature as a function of off-nadir emission angles, combined with absolute brightness temperature measurements, can allow us to determine the global abundances of water and ammonia and Study the dynamics and deep circulations of the atmosphere in the attitude range from the ammonia cloud region to depths greater than 30 bars in a manner which would not be achievable with ground-based telescopes. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码：447 / 453
页数：7
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