We have brought together a large and diverse community in the US and Europe to observe the jovian system,
with the following scientific goals:
- characterize Jupiter's cloud layers, winds, composition, auroral
activity, and temperature structure;
- produce maps of the atmosphere and surface of volcanically-active Io and icy satellite Ganymede to
constrain their thermal and atmospheric structure, and search for
plumes;
- characterize the ring structure, and its sources, sinks and
evolution.
Our program will demonstrate the capabilities of JWST's instruments on one of the largest and brightest
sources in the Solar System and on very faint targets next to it. We will also observe weak emission/absorption
bands on strong continua, and with NIRIS/AMI we will maximize the Strehl ratio on unresolved features, such
as Io's volcanoes.
