Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Juno spacecraft gravity measurements provide evidence for normal modes of Jupiter

  • Daniele Durante,
  • Tristan Guillot,
  • Luciano Iess,
  • David J. Stevenson,
  • Christopher R. Mankovich,
  • Steve Markham,
  • Eli Galanti,
  • Yohai Kaspi,
  • Marco Zannoni,
  • Luis Gomez Casajus,
  • Giacomo Lari,
  • Marzia Parisi,
  • Dustin R. Buccino,
  • Ryan S. Park,
  • Scott J. Bolton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32299-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Juno spacecraft experienced unknown accelerations near the closest approach to Jupiter. Here, the authors show that Jupiter’s axially symmetric, north-south asymmetric gravity field measured by Juno is perturbed by a time-variable component, associated to internal oscillations.