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PROGRAM_ID           2024B089
PROGRAM_TITLE        Analyzing Jupiter's Colorful and Dynamic Atmosphere During Juno's Extended Mission
PROGRAM_INV1         Emma Dahl
PROGRAM_INV2         Glenn Orton
PROGRAM_INV3         Thomas Momary
PROGRAM_INV4         Kevin Baines
PROGRAM_INV5         Kennedi White
PROGRAM_SCICAT       major planets / satellites
PROGRAM_ABSTRACT_BEG
Jupiter's atmosphere is a complex and highly variable system, driven by dynamical mechanisms that are difficult to characterize directly. By measuring the effects of those processes on the aerosol structure and weather patterns at the cloud tops, we seek to understand the nature of those dynamical mechanisms. In conjunction with Juno Microwave Radiometer measurements of brightness temperature at depth and radio occultation measurements of stratospheric temperature, we will examine the continued evolution of the relationship between aerosol structure, color, and temperature. By monitoring color-changing regions such as the EZ, GRS, and SEB, we will probe the relationship between haze structure, the coloring agents that cause the reddening, and either upwelling or downwelling dynamical processes that might loft or sequester the haze to levels where it can be more or less easily photochemically processed. We will use these observations to test the hypothesis the weather phenomena affecting the NEB and SEB are driven by the release of convective available potential energy from levels below the water cloud [~10 bars]. Understanding the dynamics that drive the weather and storms we observe at Jupiter's cloud tops will greatly inform our understanding of other gas giant and exoplanetary atmospheres.
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