DocumentCode
152592
Title
Juno at Jupiter: The Juno microwave radiometer (MWR)
Author
Janssen, Michael A. ; Brown, Shannon T. ; Oswald, John E. ; Kitiyakara, Amarit
Author_Institution
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
fYear
2014
fDate
14-19 Sept. 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
A Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer is on board the Juno mission due to arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. With wavelengths distributed from 1.37 to 50 cm (frequencies from 600 MHz to 22 GHz), the MWR will sound Jupiter´s atmosphere from the cloud tops to as deep as the 1000-bar pressure level. Presently unknown properties of the subcloud atmosphere will be determined, including dynamical features and the deep abundances of O, N, and S, the latter critical to the understanding of Jupiter´s origin.
Keywords
Jupiter; planetary atmospheres; space vehicles; Juno multifrequency microwave radiometer; Jupiter atmosphere; Jupiter origin; N; O; S; frequency 600 MHz to 22 GHz; pressure 1000 bar; subcloud atmosphere; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric waves; Instruments; Jupiter; Microwave radiometry; Space vehicles;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2014 39th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Tucson, AZ
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2014.6956004
Filename
6956004
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