Persistent rings in and around Jupiter's anticyclones - Observations and theory

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 742-762

  de Pater, Imke ^a   Wong, Michael H ^a   Marcus, Philip ^b   Luszcz Cook, Statia ^a   Ádámkovics, Maté ^a   Conrad, Al ^c   Asay Davis, Xylar ^d   Go, Christopher ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SAN CARLOS   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Hubble Space Telescope observations; Infrared observations; Jupiter, Atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049528206     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.07.027     Document Type: Article

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