# # Program information file # PROGRAM_ID 2024B024 PROGRAM_TITLE Mid-Infrared Measurements of Planetary-Scale Processes in Jupiter During Juno Perijoves 64-69 PROGRAM_INV1 Glenn Orton PROGRAM_INV2 Joseph Hora PROGRAM_INV3 James Sinclair PROGRAM_INV4 Emma Dahl PROGRAM_INV5 Thomas Momary PROGRAM_SCICAT major planets / satellites PROGRAM_ABSTRACT_BEG Juno's exploration of Jupiter will culminate in 2025, so this final Jupiter opposition [December 2024] offers the opportunity for a joint investigation of Jupiter's stratospheric dynamics using Juno radio occultations alongside MIRSI mid-IR imaging. Juno ingress and egress occultations will provide temperature profiles at northern [60-70N] and southern [25-50S] latitudes with excellent vertical resolution, but lacking in spatial and temporal context. Inversions of MIRSI multi-wavelength global imaging will provide good spatial context for occultation locations, but lacks good vertical resolution. Such an opportunity to combine these methods may not arise again until the 2030s with the JUICE mission. In addition, MIRSI thermal maps will be used to test theories that [i] microwave contrasts detected by Juno in the weather layer are largely driven by temperatures; and [ii] extend the long-term record of belt/zone variability on this archetypal giant. PROGRAM_ABSTRACT_END