Analyses have been carried out of infrared images of Jupiter's polar haze observed with the ProtoCAM camera on the Infrared Telescope Facility(IRTF) on March 36, 1992. We obtained polar region images of Jupiter's H3+ emission and continuum at 2.093 an...
Analyses have been carried out of infrared images of Jupiter's polar haze observed with the ProtoCAM camera on the Infrared Telescope Facility(IRTF) on March 36, 1992. We obtained polar region images of Jupiter's H3+ emission and continuum at 2.093 and 2.091 microns, respectively and also obtained images of Jupiter's H2 emission and continuum at 2.406 and 2.404 microns, respectively. When Jupiter is viewed through CH4 band filter(e.g., 2.3 micron), the haze forms bright caps at both poles, indicating that the haze has greater optical density and/or extends higher into the atmosphere at the poles than it does at temperate latitudes. We fitted the Jupiter's limb on the observed images and converted the position of each pixel into latitudinal, longitudinal coordinate. To obtain information on distribution of Jovian polar haze, we plotted intensities along the CML, limb. Latitude 40˚, 50˚. And we compared those intensity profile with parallel atmospheric haze model.