Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Revealing giant planet interiors beneath the cloudy veil

  • Tristan Guillot,
  • Leigh N. Fletcher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15431-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 3

Abstract

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Observations from the Juno and Cassini missions provide essential constraints on the internal structures and compositions of Jupiter and Saturn, resulting in profound revisions of our understanding of the interior and atmospheres of Gas Giant planets. The next step to understand planetary origins in our Solar System requires a mission to their Ice Giant siblings, Uranus and Neptune.