posted on 2020-05-22, 13:47authored byTristan Guillot, Leigh N Fletcher
Observations from the Juno and Cassini missions provide essential constraints on the internal structures and compositions of Jupiter and Saturn, resulting in profound revisions of our understanding of the interior and atmospheres of Gas Giant planets. The next step to understand planetary origins in our Solar System requires a mission to their Ice Giant siblings, Uranus and Neptune.
Funding
T. Guillot was supported by the Centre National d’Études Spatiales and a fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. L.N. Fletcher was supported by a Royal Society Research Fellowship and European Research Council Consolidator Grant (under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 723890) at the University of Leicester.