Lecture 6: Jupiter

Further reading

• A complete up-to-date list of all of Jupiter's satellites can be found at Scott Sheppard's "The Jupiter Satellite Page", http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/sheppard/satellites/
• There's a very good explanation of how tidal heating works for Io at "The Astro 150 Tidal Heating Tutorial", http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/smith/Astro150/Tutorials/TidalHeat/
• The Juno mission web page is at http://missionjuno.swri.edu/ - but beware! it's a very annoying Flash site. And, of course, doesn't have much of interest on it yet.
• There's an interesting discussion of the effects of radiation on the Pioneer and Voyager missions at http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001871/, as well as some musings on how many "what ifs" there are in planetary exploration!

Source for images

• Background image: Voyager image of the Great Red Spot, PIA01527 from NASA Planetary Photo Journal, http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01527
• Jupiter title image: Cassini composite, with the shadow of Europa, PIA02873, from NASA Planetary Photo Journal, http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02873
• Spacecraft images: from NASA Solar System Exploration: Spacecraft images http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery.cfm?Category=Spacecraft
• Jupiter barycentre: from NASA Space Place: What's a barycenter? http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/barycntr.shtml
• All images of Jupiter and its moons are from the NASA Planetary Photo Journal, unless otherwise indicated. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/Jupiter
• Jupiter rotation movie: from Cassini images, PIA02863, from NASA Planetary Photo Journal, http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02863
• Jupiter's composition: from Journey through the Galaxy: Jupiter, http://home.cwru.edu/~sjr16/advanced/jupiter.html
• Jupiter's interior: from Views of the Solar System by Calvin Hamilton, http://www.solarviews.com/cap/jup/jupint.htm
• Interior: from Lawrence Rudnick AST1001 http://webusers.astro.umn.edu/~larry/CLASS/AST1001/jupsat/Jupiter+Saturn.html
• Names of atmospheric features: from Sky and Telescope: A Jupiter Observing Guide, http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/article_174_1.asp
• Jupiter atmosphere structure; and Belts and zones: from Atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/121/lecture-13/jupiter_atmosphere.html
• Storm and cloud heights: from Gierasch et al. 2000 "Observation of moist convection in Jupiter's atmosphere", Nature 403, p. 628.
• Earth/Great Red Spot comparison: Wikipedia - Great Red Spot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Red_Spot
• Motion of white ovals: from Galileo images, PIA01231, http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01231
• Little Red Spot: Hubble Site News Release 2006-19 http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/19/
• Red Spot Jr from Gemini: Gemini release 20 July 2006 http://www.gemini.edu/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=196
• Jupiter's magnetosphere: from http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/images/230-949Ac_s.gif
• Montage of Jupiter's moons: from "Views of the Solar System" by Calvin Hamilton, http://www.solarviews.com/cap/jup/jupsystm.htm
• Europa and Callisto in front of Jupiter from Cassini: from APOD http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010102.html
• Satellite orbits: from The Jupiter Satellite Page by Scott Sheppard, http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/sheppard/satellites/
• Jupiter's rings from Galileo: from APOD http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080106.html
• Jupiter's ring components: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01627
• Ring-shepherding satellites: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01624
• The Galilean moons; from Views of the Solar System by Calvin Hamilton, http://www.solarviews.com/cap/jup/jupmoon.htm
• Callisto cutaway: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01478
• Vallhalla antipode: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02593
• Callisto from Voyager: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02253
• Callisto from Voyager 1 showing Valhalla: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00080
• Scarps: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00561 and spires http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03455
• Crater chain on Callisto: from NEO program: Images of impact crater chains on Calliso, http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/images/callisto.html
• HOPE mission to Callisto: from http://www.thespacereview.com/article/521/2
• Ganymede: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00716
• Ganymede cutaway: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00519
• Ganymede terrain: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00706
• Dark terrain craters: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02571
• Palimpsest crater: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01659
• Bright terrain: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01618
• Fractures in Nicholson Regio: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01613
• Overlapping belts http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01615
• Tectonic features in Marius Regio: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01091
• Europa: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00502
• Europa from Voyager: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01970. Pwyll crater: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01661
• Europa rising: New Horizons mission photos http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/gallery/missionPhotos/pages/050107/050107_01.html
• Subsurface structure: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01669
• Tides on Europa: Planetary Photojournal http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10149
• Thick or thin ice: Planetary Photojournal http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10131
• Red linear features: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10149
• Double ridges: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01664
• Fissure eruptions: from USGS Photo glossary: fissure eruptions, http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/FissureEruption_examps.html ; and Howstuffworks: How volcanoes work, http://science.howstuffworks.com/volcano4.htm
• Brown ridges: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01641
• Thera and Thrace: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02099
• Conamara Chaos: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01403. Terrestrial ice floes: from Sea Ice by Nico Gray, http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~ngray/Seaice/Seaice.html
• Cycloid features: from Hoppa et al. 1999, images at http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~hoppa/science.html
• Europa Jupiter System Mission: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/20090218.html
• Io: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02308
• Plumes over Pilan Patera: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01081
• Io interior: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01129
• Rotating Io: from Astronomy 161: The Solar System - The Moon Io, http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/jovian_moons/io.html
• Masubi: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02502; Loki http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00010; Pele http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00323
• Pele hemisphere http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00718
• Eruption at Tvashtar Catena: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02550
• Volcanism on Io: Robert Nowack EAS 105-The Planets, lecture 17 http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~nowack/geos105/lect17-dir/lecture17.htm
• Mountains on Io: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03600 and http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03886
• New Horizons images of Io: from New Horizons mission photos http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/gallery/missionPhotos.html
• Io sodium cloud: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01111
• Io sulfur torus: from John Spencer's Astronomical Visualizations, http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~spencer/digipics.html
• Cassini's Millennium image of Io in front of Jupiter: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020706.html
• The Galilean satellites: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01400

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Last updated 13 October 2011