Cassini Imaging of Jupiter's Atmosphere, Satellites, and Rings

@article{Porco2003CassiniIO,
  title={Cassini Imaging of Jupiter's Atmosphere, Satellites, and Rings},
  author={Carolyn C. Porco and Robert A. West and Alfred S. McEwen and Anthony D. Del Genio and Andrew P. Ingersoll and Peter C. Thomas and Steven W. Squyres and Luke Dones and Carl D. Murray and Torrence V. Johnson and Joseph A. Burns and Andre Brahic and Gerhard Neukum and Joseph Frank Veverka and J. M. Barbara and Tilmann Denk and Michael Evans and Joseph Ferrier and Paul E. Geissler and P. Helfenstein and Thomas Roatsch and H. B. Throop and Matthew S. Tiscareno and Ashwin R. Vasavada},
  journal={Science},
  year={2003},
  volume={299},
  pages={1541 - 1547}
}
The Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem acquired about 26,000 images of the Jupiter system as the spacecraft encountered the giant planet en route to Saturn. We report findings on Jupiter's zonal winds, convective storms, low-latitude upper troposphere, polar stratosphere, and northern aurora. We also describe previously unseen emissions arising from Io and Europa in eclipse, a giant volcanic plume over Io's north pole, disk-resolved images of the satellite Himalia, circumstantial evidence for a… 
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