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Science 23 November 1979:
Vol. 206. no. 4421, pp. 956 - 959
DOI: 10.1126/science.206.4421.956
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Photometric Observations of Jupiter at 2400 Angstroms

CHARLES W. HORD 1, ROBERT A. WEST 1, KAREN E. SIMMONS 1, DAVID L. COFFEEN 2, MAKIKO SATO 2, ARTHUR L. LANE 3, and JAY T. BERGSTRALH 3

1 Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309
2 Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York 10025
3 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91103

The photopolarimeter instrument on Voyager 2 was used to obtain a map of Jupiter at an effective wavelength of 2400 angstroms. Analysis of a typical north-south swath used to make this map shows strong absorption at high latitudes by a molecular or particulate constituent in the Jovian atmosphere. At 65° north latitude, the absorbing constituent extends to altitudes above the 50-millibar pressure level.

Submitted on September 26, 1979


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