Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781316227220.011
A. Showman, A. Ingersoll, R. Achterberg, Y. Kaspi
Over the past decade, the Cassini spacecraft has provided an unprecedented observational record of the atmosphere of Saturn, which in many ways now surpasses Jupiter as the best-observed giant planet. These observations, along with data from the Voyager spacecraft and Earth-based telescopes, demonstrate that Saturn, like Jupiter, has an atmospheric circulation dominated by zonal (east-west) jet streams, including a broad, fast eastward equatorial jet and numerous weaker jets at higher latitudes. Imaging from Voyager, Cassini, and groundbased telescopes also document a wide range of tropospheric features, including vortices, waves, turbulence, and moist convective storms. At large scales, the clouds, ammonia gas, and other chemical tracers exhibit a zonally banded pattern whose relationships to the zonal jets remains poorly understood. Infrared observations constrain the stratospheric thermal structure and allow the derivation of stratospheric temperatures; these exhibit not only the expected seasonal changes but a wealth of variations that are likely dynamical in origin and highlight dynamical coupling between the stratosphere and the underlying troposphere. In parallel to these observational developments, significant advances in theory and modeling have occurred over the past decade, especially regarding the dynamics of zonal jets, and we survey these new developments in the context of both Jupiter and Saturn. Highly idealized two-dimensional models illuminate the dynamics that give rise to zonal jets in rapidly rotating atmospheres stirred by convection or other processes, while more realistic three-dimensional models of the atmosphere and interior are starting to identify the particular conditions under which Jupiterand Saturn-like flows—including the fast equatorial superrotation, multiple jets at higher latitudes, storms, and vortices—can occur. Future data analysis and models have the potential to greatly increase our understanding over the next decade.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781316227220.006
N. Krupp, P. Kollmann, M. Thomsen, D. G. Mitchell, Xianzhe Jia, Adam Masters, Philippe Zarka
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Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781316227220.012
K. Sayanagi, K. Baines, U. Dyudina, L. N. Fletcher, A. Sánchez‐Lavega, R. West
{"title":"Saturn’s Polar Atmosphere","authors":"K. Sayanagi, K. Baines, U. Dyudina, L. N. Fletcher, A. Sánchez‐Lavega, R. West","doi":"10.1017/9781316227220.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316227220.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185956,"journal":{"name":"Saturn in the 21st Century","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121500926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781316227220.015
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Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781316227220.010
L. N. Fletcher, T. Greathouse, S. Guerlet, J. Moses, R. West
{"title":"Saturn’s Seasonally Changing Atmosphere","authors":"L. N. Fletcher, T. Greathouse, S. Guerlet, J. Moses, R. West","doi":"10.1017/9781316227220.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316227220.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185956,"journal":{"name":"Saturn in the 21st Century","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133101253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781316227220.014
K. Baines, S. Atreya, F. Crary, S. Edgington, T. Greathouse, H. Melin, O. Mousis, G. Orton, T. Spilker, A. Wesley
Despite the lack of another Flagship-class mission like Cassini-Huygens, 1 prospects for the future exploration of Saturn are nevertheless encouraging. Both NASA 2 and the European Space Agency (ESA) are exploring the possibilities of focused 3 interplanetary missions to (1) drop one or more in-situ atmospheric entry probes into 4 Saturn and (2) explore the satellites Titan and Enceladus which would provide 5 opportunities for both in-situ investigations of Saturn's magnetosphere and detailed 6 remote-sensing observations of Saturn. Additionally, a new generation of powerful 7 Earth-based and near-Earth telescopes with advanced instrumentation spanning the ultra8 violet to the far-infrared promise to provide systematic observations of Saturn’s 9 seasonally-changing composition and thermal structure, cloud structures and wind fields. 10 Finally, new advances in amateur telescopic observations brought on largely by the 11 availability of low-cost powerful computers, low-noise, large-format cameras, and 12 attendant sophisticated software promise to provide regular observations of Saturn in 13 remarkable detail. 14 14.
{"title":"The Future Exploration of Saturn","authors":"K. Baines, S. Atreya, F. Crary, S. Edgington, T. Greathouse, H. Melin, O. Mousis, G. Orton, T. Spilker, A. Wesley","doi":"10.1017/9781316227220.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316227220.014","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the lack of another Flagship-class mission like Cassini-Huygens, 1 prospects for the future exploration of Saturn are nevertheless encouraging. Both NASA 2 and the European Space Agency (ESA) are exploring the possibilities of focused 3 interplanetary missions to (1) drop one or more in-situ atmospheric entry probes into 4 Saturn and (2) explore the satellites Titan and Enceladus which would provide 5 opportunities for both in-situ investigations of Saturn's magnetosphere and detailed 6 remote-sensing observations of Saturn. Additionally, a new generation of powerful 7 Earth-based and near-Earth telescopes with advanced instrumentation spanning the ultra8 violet to the far-infrared promise to provide systematic observations of Saturn’s 9 seasonally-changing composition and thermal structure, cloud structures and wind fields. 10 Finally, new advances in amateur telescopic observations brought on largely by the 11 availability of low-cost powerful computers, low-noise, large-format cameras, and 12 attendant sophisticated software promise to provide regular observations of Saturn in 13 remarkable detail. 14 14.","PeriodicalId":185956,"journal":{"name":"Saturn in the 21st Century","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123619440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781316227220.009
D. Strobel, T. Koskinen, I. Müller-Wodarg
{"title":"Saturn’s Variable Thermosphere","authors":"D. Strobel, T. Koskinen, I. Müller-Wodarg","doi":"10.1017/9781316227220.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316227220.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185956,"journal":{"name":"Saturn in the 21st Century","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116116968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781316227220.005
J. F. Carbary, M. Hedman, T. Hill, X. Jia, W. Kurth, L. Lamy, G. Provan
{"title":"The Mysterious Periodicities of Saturn","authors":"J. F. Carbary, M. Hedman, T. Hill, X. Jia, W. Kurth, L. Lamy, G. Provan","doi":"10.1017/9781316227220.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316227220.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185956,"journal":{"name":"Saturn in the 21st Century","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131888477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781316227220.001
K. Baines, F. Flasar, N. Krupp, T. Stallard
{"title":"Introduction to Saturn in the 21st Century","authors":"K. Baines, F. Flasar, N. Krupp, T. Stallard","doi":"10.1017/9781316227220.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316227220.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185956,"journal":{"name":"Saturn in the 21st Century","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129545221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781316227220.004
U. Christensen
{"title":"Saturn’s Magnetic Field and Dynamo","authors":"U. Christensen","doi":"10.1017/9781316227220.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316227220.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185956,"journal":{"name":"Saturn in the 21st Century","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132032342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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