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The Galileo Probe Mass Spectrometer measurements in the atmosphere of Jupiter give
These ratios supercede earlier results by Niemann et al. (1996) and are based on a reevaluation of the instrument response at high count rates and a more detailed study of the contributions of different species to the mass peak at 3 amu. The D/H ratio is consistent with Voyager and ground based data and recent spectroscopic and solar wind (SW) values obtained from the Infrared Spectroscopic Observatory (1SO) and Ulysses. The 3He/4He ratio is higher than that found in meteoritic gases (1.5 ± 0.3) × 10−4. The Galileo result for D/H when compared with that for hydrogen in the local interstellar medium (1.6 ± 0.12) × 10−5 implies a small decrease in D/H in this part of the universe during the past 4.55 billion years. Thus, it tends to support small values of primordial D/H — in the range of several times 10−5 rather than several times 10−4. These results are also quite consistent with no change in (D+3He)/H during the past 4.55 billion years in this part of our galaxy.
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Mahaffy, P.R., Donahue, T.M., Atreya, S.K., Owen, T.C., Niemann, H.B. (1998). Galileo Probe Measurements of D/H and 3He/4He in Jupiter’s Atmosphere. In: Prantzos, N., Tosi, M., Von Steiger, R. (eds) Primordial Nuclei and Their Galactic Evolution. Space Sciences Series of ISSI, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5116-0_25
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