Identifying the source of colour and featural changes in Jupiter's atmosphere from MUSE/VLT
Abstract
We use ground-based observations from the MUSE/VLT instrument to characterise changes in cloud structure and colour in Jupiter's atmosphere between 2014-2017, and providing global context to observations of Jupiter from the Juno spacecraft. We witness significant changes in Jupiter's banded structure in the northern hemisphere in 2017, and we also confirm that the colour in Jupiter's red regions can be well-modelled using a red substance produced through the photochemical reaction of ammonia with acetylene. This implies a high-altitude source of colour in Jupiter's atmosphere.
- Publication:
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European Planetary Science Congress
- Pub Date:
- September 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017EPSC...11..806B