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The two Jupiter pictures are amazing!
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Southern Jupiter from 37,000 kilometers away in a JunoCam image from December 11. The image data was captured near Juno's third perijove (closest approach to Jupiter), the spacecraft still in its 53 day long looping orbit. The south polar region on the left. The large whitish oval toward the right is massive, counterclockwise rotating storm system. The oval storm is smaller than the famous Great Red Spot - only about half the diameter of Earth, one of a string of white ovals currently in the southern hemisphere of of Jupiter. Image credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS; Processing: Damian Peach
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Image of Jupiter from the Juno probe It was captured last month from only 14,500 km above the cloud tops. [Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko] Today Juno flies again, its fifth flyby of the gas giant. Juno will approach to within 4,400 km of Jupiter’s cloud tops, and will travel at a speed of 207,600 km/h. During this time of closest approach, called a perijove, all of Juno’s eight science instruments will be active, along with the JunoCam. The JunoCam was included in the missions to help engage the public. Junocam’s targets are partly chosen by the public, and anyone can download and process the raw images. Click here for the Junocam website.
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Here is Jupiter as we've never seen it before - not personal, but definitely up close, courtesy of Juno. It's Jupiter's Little Red Spot which is only little compared to the Great Red Spot, because it's a massive storm in the southern hemisphere seen at about 14,500 km (9000 miles) from Jupiter. The image was produced as an enhanced color view by citizen scientist Bjorn Jonsson using data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft. JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Bjorn Jonsson
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More from the partnership of JunoCam and citizen scientists! Here's an enhanced color view of Jupiter’s south pole created by Gabriel Fiset. Oval storms dot the cloudscape. Approaching the pole, the organized turbulence of Jupiter’s belts and zones transitions into clusters of unorganized filamentary structures, streams of air that resemble giant tangled strings. The image was taken on Dec. 11, 2016 . . . from an altitude of about 32,400 miles (52,200 kilometers) above the planet’s cloud tops.
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Juno may have found it snowing on Jupiter. Here's a zoomed-in view of a photo she took on May 19. It shows clouds of water ice and/or ammonia ice high in Jupiter's atmosphere. The white clouds are so high in Jupiter's atmosphere that they're very cold, and the material they shed is therefore almost certainly frozen, Juno team members said.
"It's snowing on Jupiter, and we're seeing how it works," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said during a news conference Thursday (May 25). "It's probably mostly ammonia ice, but there may be water ice mixed into it, so it's not exactly like the snow that we have [on Earth]," Bolton added. "And I was using my imagination when I said it was snowing there — it could be hail." Credit: NASA/SWRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran
Last edited by Mona - Astronomy; 06/25/17 01:36 AM.
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Another magnificent work of art from Juno. Juno took the picture on May 19, 2017 from nearly 47,000 km (29,000 miles) above the cloud tops. It includes a view of Jupiter's south polar region This image was processed to enhance color differences, showing the amazing variety in Jupiter’s stormy atmosphere. The result is a surreal world of vibrant color, clarity and contrast. Four of the white oval storms known as the “String of Pearls†are visible near the top of the image. Interestingly, one orange-colored storm can be seen at the belt-zone boundary, while other storms are more of a cream color. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran
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