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: Sunset from the lab

: Librationally-driven roll instabilities

: Rotating magnetoconvection in liquid gallium

: Rotating Convection in Water

: Record player GFD

: Modeling Planetary Zonal Flows

: Jerome Noir discussing the libration experiment with Michael Burin.

: The recent shrine-ification of RoMag has significantly improved our data quality.

: The planetary libration device (aka The Libron James) with MSE’s custum-built ultraLDV in operation. This device is funded by the NASA PGG and PME programs.

: Laboratory, March 2009, showing the TopEx (left) and RoMag experiments, which are both supported by the NSF Geophysics Program.

: Left to right: Jerome Noir, John Cantwell, Eric King, Krista Soderlund, Michael Calkins, Jon Aurnou, and Afshin Yaghmaei, April 2009.

: a) Giant planets model results; b) Ice Giant model results. (Image: K. Soderlund.)

: Boundary layer instabilities driven by librational forcing.