Dwindling Surface Cooling of a Rotating Jovian Planet Leads to a Convection Zone That Grows to a Finite Depth
Recent measurements of Jupiter's gravitational field (by Juno) and seismology of Saturn's rings (by Cassini) strongly suggest that both planets have a stably stratified core that still possesses a primordial gradient in the concentration of heavy elements. The existence of such a “diffusel...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2023-01-01
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| Series: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad0642 |