Voyage to Jupiter

By David Morrison and Jane Samz

Book Overview

The two Voyager encounters with Jupiter were periods unparalleled in degree and diversity of discovery. We had, or course, expected a number of discoveries because we had never before been able to study in detail the atmospheric motions on a planet that is a giant spinning sphere of hydrogen and helium, nor had we ever observed planet-sized objects such as the Jovian satellites Ganymedes and Callisto, which are half water-ice. We had never been so close to a Moon-sized satellite such as lo, which was known to be dispersing sodium throughout its Jovian neighborhood and was thought to be generating a one-million-ampere electrical current that in some way results in billions of watts of radio emission from Jupiter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478221143
• ISBN13: 9781478221142
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"