Water and Ammonia Abundances in Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt and Equatorial Zone at the time of Juno Perijoves 4 to 6
Abstract
We used iSHELL on NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility and NIRSPEC on the Keck telescope concurrent with Juno perijoves 4-6 between February and May 2017 to obtain 5-micron spectra of Jupiter. Here we will focus on observations of the South Equatorial Belt and the Equatorial Zone. Spectrally resolved line profiles of CH3D, NH3, and H2O probe the 1 to 8-bar level of Jupiter's troposphere. This overlaps with the weighting functions for several channels of Juno's microwave radiometer. The profile of the CH3D lines at 4.66 microns is very broad in SEB Hot Spots due to collisions with up to 8 bars of H2, where unit optical depth occurs due to collision-induced H2 opacity. The extreme width of these CH3D features implies that the Hot Spots that we observed do not have significant cloud opacity for P > 2 bars. We will discuss the abundance of NH3 and gaseous H2O within SEB Hot Spots and other regions near the longitude of perijove for each Juno encounter. We had dry nights on Mauna Kea and a sufficient Doppler shift to detect H2O. We will compare line wings to derive H2O profiles in the 2 to 6-bar region. SEB Hot Spots are highly depleted in H2O for P < 5 bars with respect to zones.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017AGUFM.P31C2815B
- Keywords:
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- 2756 Planetary magnetospheres;
- MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS;
- 5704 Atmospheres;
- PLANETARY SCIENCES: FLUID PLANETS;
- 5724 Interiors;
- PLANETARY SCIENCES: FLUID PLANETS;
- 6220 Jupiter;
- PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS