Jupiter - Structure and composition of the upper atmosphere
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Abstract
The Voyager ultraviolet stellar occultation data yield a temperature of 200 + or - 50 K at about 400 km, and the solar occultation data give 1100 + or - 200 K at 1450 km above the ammonia cloud tops. The temperature gradient between 400 and 1450 km is approximately 1 K/km. The mesospheric temperature structure gives no strong indication of an earth-like mesopause. The heating of the upper atmosphere appears to result from a combination of magnetospheric charged particle precipitation, ion drag, inertia gravity waves, and solar EUV. The volume mixing ratios of CH4 and C2H6 at 325 km are measured to be 2.5(+3, -2) x 10 to the -5th and 2.5(+2.0, -1.5) x 10 to the -6th, respectively, which are lower than in the stratosphere. The C2H2 volume mixing ratio is not greater than 5 x 10 to the -6th at 300 km. The homopause value of the equatorial eddy diffusion coefficient is found to be 1-2 x 10 to the -6th sq cm/s.
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