Revealing Giant Planet Interiors Beneath the Cloudy Veil

Abstract

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.

References in corpus (8)

• Comparing Jupiter interior structure models to Juno gravity measurements and the role of a dilute core
• New models of Jupiter in the context of Juno and Galileo
• The water abundance in Jupiter's equatorial zone
• Saturn Ring Seismology: Evidence for Stable Stratification in the Deep Interior of Saturn
• The Formation of Jupiter's Diluted Core by a Giant Impact
• Saturn's deep atmospheric flows revealed by the Cassini Grand Finale gravity measurements
• Methane depletion in both polar regions of Uranus inferred from HST/STIS and Keck/NIRC2 observations
• Evidence for a Dichotomy in the Interior Structures of Jupiter and Saturn from Helium Phase Separation