This page is designed to serve as a resource for accessing a variety of Jupiter data sets housed at the PDS Atmospheres Node. In addition to browsing through the below data sets, users are encouraged to explore the search engine on the PDS home page. The data sets listed below are in roughly reverse chronological order by mission, with groundbased data following all of the spacecraft mission data.
New Horizons
Because New Horizons is first and foremost a mission to Pluto, the PDS Small Bodies Node is the lead node for archiving all New Horizons data, even those data acquired during the Jupiter flyby in February 2007. However, in addition to the Small Bodies Node New Horizons web page (link here), we have developed a New Horizons Jupiter Resource Page (link to Mike's page here) for scientists interested in the data from the Jupiter encounter.
Cassini
Mission Data
The Atmospheres Node is the lead node for all of the Cassini archive, and is responsible for archiving the CIRS, UVS, and RSS data. See our Cassini Archive Page for more details about the Cassini archive. To directly access the Jupiter data from Cassini that are archived at the Atmospheres Node, see the Jupiter section of the PDS Atmospheres Node Catalog.
Vasavada maps
This Cassini dataset is a set of map projections, derived from volume Cxxxxxxxxx, which contains Imaging Science Subsystem – Narrow Angle (ISS-NA) images near closest approach during the Jupiter Cassini flyby. The observing sequence used a 1x2 mosaic, oriented N-S, with 4 filters, and returned 8 images every 63 minutes for 40 hours. At each time step the ISS acquired a complete view of the planet for a total of 304 images, which resulted in 302 useful maps (see *.lst file, an ASCII table of filename, filters, and SCET).
| Filter Name | Central Wavelength (nm) | Bandwidth (nm) |
| CB2 | xxx | xxx |
Each *.map file is in 16-bit VICAR format and has been calibrated and converted to I/F*10000 using VICAR/CISSCAL 3.4. They were navigated using the planetary limb and mapped into a rectangular projection; with the same scale in both the lat/lon directions at the equator. CB2 images (the best images for dynamics) are mapped at 0.05 deg/pix, matching the scale at which they were acquired, resulting in 3601x3601 (26 Mb) arrays. The other 3 filters are mapped at 0.1 deg/pix into 1801x1801 (6.5) arrays. The maps are referenced the subspacecraft longitude and span +/-90 deg. in both latitude and longitude. The central longitude of the map is chosen to be the closest "integer" value (i.e., to the nearest 0.05 of 0.1 deg) to the sub-spacecraft longitude.
The gridded color reference map (PIA07782_fig2.jpg ) and corresponding higher resolution map (PIA07782.tif) provide base maps for assessing the data. These geometrically controlled maps are not photometrically accurate (illumination has been removed and seam removal processing applied). (xxx note: on our help page we need to access PIA07782 through a link that tells people how to accurately convert line and sample to (lat,long) for proposal planning. xxx)
Click here to access the aforementioned Cassini maps.
Galileo
Mission Data
The Atmospheres Node is responsible for archiving the Galileo PPR and Probe data. See our Galileo Archive Page for newly released Galileo data. To directly access the Jupiter data from Galileo that are archived at the Atmospheres Node, see the Jupiter section of the PDS Atmospheres Node Catalog.
EUV/UVS
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The UVS data acquired during the Cruise phase of the Galileo mission can be found here, while the UVS and EUV data acquired during the Jupiter Orbital phase of the mission can be accessed here.
Gierasch image cubes
This data set contains uniformly mapped mosaics constructed from photometrically and geometrically calibrated images. The mosaics include most of the images of Jupiter's atmosphere that were obtained by the Galileo orbiter. Most mosaics are simple cylindrical projections (mosaics of the limb regions were also presented as orthographic projections). The data are arranged as a cube with co-registered multi-color projections in the front planes (some or all of the following filters are included – violet, 725, 756 and 889) and, pixel-by-pixel, planetographic latitude, west longitude, cosine of emission angle, cosine of incidence angle, and cosine of phase angle in the back planes.
Volume 1 contains all mosaics for orbits g1, c3, e4, e6, g7, g8, and c9;
Volume 2 contains all mosaics for orbits c10, e11, e17, c20, c22, g28,
and g29;
Volume 3 contains all those for i31 and i33, along with information on
processing.
Click here to access the aforementioned mapped Galileo data.
IRTF Ground-based Support Observations
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Click here to access the aforementioned IRTF data.
Voyager
Mission Data
The Atmospheres Node is responsible for archiving the Voyager IRIS and UVS data. To directly access the Voyager Jupiter data that are archived at the Atmospheres Node, see the Jupiter section of the PDS Atmospheres Node Catalog.
Avis maps
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Calibrated Voyager Jupiter Images
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Shoemaker-Levy 9 Jupiter Impact Data
The PDS Atmospheres Node has already archived two datasets from the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts into Jupiter in July 1994. One dataset contains the Hubble Space Telescope observations of this event, while the other contains ground-based observations of the event made with the Anglo-Australian Observatory. These data can be accessed from the Jupiter section of the PDS Atmospheres Node Catalog.
Several additional datasets are conditionally online pending peer review; these include ground-based data from the W. M. Keck Observatory, the National Solar Observatory, the South African Astronomical Observatory, and the South Pole InfraRed EXplorer. These data can be accessed here.
Ground-based Data
Maui
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Tortugas Mountain Archive
This multicolor data set (450-893 nm) reveals the episodic nature of cloud phenomena in Jupiter’s visible cloud deck. It was obtained at Tortugas Mountain Observatory, located 4 km east of Las Cruces, New Mexico, at an elevation of 1505 meters (300 meters above the local terrain) and spans the period from 1988 to 1997.
The observatory’s 61 cm Cassegrain camera was used with a CCD detector illuminated at the f/40 focus ....
Click here to access the aforementioned Tortugas Mountain data.
Karkoschka's Full Disk Albedo Measurements
The PDS Atmospheres Node has archived methane absorption coefficients and full-disk albedo measurements of Jupiter (along with Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Titan) spanning 300 to 1000 nm. These observations were made by Erich Karkoschka from the European Southern Observatory in July 1995. These data can be accessed from the Jupiter section of the PDS Atmospheres Node Catalog.