Lecture 6: Jupiter
Further reading
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
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