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Jupiter's Gravity Field Halfway Through the Juno Mission

Authors :
Luciano Iess
Daniele Serra
Dustin Buccino
P. Racioppa
Paolo Tortora
Marco Zannoni
Marzia Parisi
Giacomo Lari
Scott Bolton
W. M. Folkner
Virginia Notaro
Daniele Durante
Giacomo Tommei
L. Gomez Casajus
Durante, Durante
Parisi, Marzia
Serra, Daniele
Zannoni, Marco
Notaro, Virginia
Racioppa, Paolo
Buccino, Dustin R.
Lari, Giacomo
Gomez Casajus, Lui
Iess, Luciano
Folkner, William M.
Tommei, Giacomo
Tortora, Paolo
Bolton, Scott J.
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

The Juno spacecraft reached the mid‐point of its nominal mission in December 2018, after completing 17 perijove passes. Ten of these were dedicated to the determination of the gravity field of the planet, with the aim of constraining its interior structure. We provide an update on Jupiter's gravity field, its tidal response and spin axis motion over time. The analysis of the Doppler data collected during the perijove passes hints to a non‐static and/or non‐axially symmetric field, possibly related to several different physical mechanisms, such as normal modes or localized atmospheric or deeply‐rooted dynamics.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
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