Hello everyone, I'm new and I came on to try and find information about Jupiter's atmosphere. I'm an amatuer science fiction writer, and I want to avoid Bad Astronomy in my work. Everywhere I go to find information about Jupiter's atmosphere, I find mostly reasonable speculation, or scant information from spectroscopy and Gallileo. Is there any available information about the differences in electrical potential between different strata in the atmosphere, and the chemical compostions of the various strata, and other "climate" information?

Is there just not much known in that much detail?

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks. I hate to ask a technical question right off, but Bad Astronomy's been a good source of information so far.

No worries at all. I'm sure folks will chime in.

I dont' know really... There is bits of information about the interior of Jupiter, but not alot is known as we havent' sent any probe into those kind of depths to get good intel. The rest is speculation on the information that we have. Hope that helps and Welcome to the forums.

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

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You might find this interesting regarding Io .

Io travels through Jupiter's magnetic field.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

This sort of thing is generally available, so I'm guessing you want more detail.
As it happens, the December issue of Icarus contains an article entitled The cloud structure of the jovian atmosphere as seen by the Cassini/CIRS experiment: but you'll need an academic log-on, a credit card, or a trip to your local university library to see the whole piece, unfortunately.

Grant Hutchison

Perfect. I'll stroll on down to the university and check it out. Thank you.