Posted on 06/26/2016 10:54:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: The New Horizons spacecraft took some stunning images of Jupiter on its way out to Pluto. Famous for its Great Red Spot, Jupiter is also known for its regular, equatorial cloud bands, visible through even modest sized telescopes. The featured image, horizontally compressed, was taken in 2007 near Jupiter's terminator and shows the Jovian giant's wide diversity of cloud patterns. On the far left are clouds closest to Jupiter's South Pole. Here turbulent whirlpools and swirls are seen in a dark region, dubbed a belt, that rings the planet. Even light colored regions, called zones, show tremendous structure, complete with complex wave patterns. The energy that drives these waves surely comes from below. New Horizons is the fastest space probe ever launched, has successfully complete its main flyby of Pluto in 2015, and is now heading further out and on track to flyby Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69 in 2019. In the near term, many space enthusiasts excitedly await Juno's arrival at Jupiter next Monday.
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[Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI]
Democrata go to Jupiter to get more stupider!
Now that she’s back in the atmosphere
With drops of Jupiter in her hair, hey, hey, hey
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there’s a time to change, hey, hey, hey
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June, hey, hey,
Beautiful
WOW! Just, WOW!
And to think that all happened, ‘by accident’ with no planning or forethought by say, a Creator? ;)
If we could get them all to go, I’d chip in.
They should have done a better job of checking the camera before they launched the satellite. It’s taking pictures sideways. Maybe all the photos we have been shown of Pluto are also sideways.
They should have done a better job of checking the camera before they launched the satellite. It’s taking pictures sideways. Maybe all the photos we have been shown of Pluto are also sideways.
yep
We had to talk them out of using Polaroid cartridges.
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