DYNAMICS OF THE ATMOSPHERE OF JUPITER

Atmospheric jets and vortices on Jupiter persist for decades in the pr esence of vigorous turbulence which might be expected to destroy organ ized flows. The penetration depth of the jets into the planet has been a major question, and new data from the NASA Galileo entry probe sugg est that they are not shallow atmospheric phenomena. Numerical simulat ions and Galileo orbiter data promise further progress in the near fut ure.