Posted on 01/21/2014 3:15:05 PM PST by lbryce
YouTube:Gustav Holst - The Planets - Jupiter, and the Orchestral Bringer of Jollity
In this composite images from the New Horizon mission, Jupiter was captured in three bands of infrared light making the Great Red Spot look white. Complex hurricane-like ovals, swirls, and planet-ringing bands are visible in Jupiter's complex atmosphere. A volcanic plume is erupting from Io's volcano Tvashtar. Frost and sulfuric lava cover the volcanic moon, while red-glowing lava is visible beneath the blue sunlight-scattering plume. The robotic New Horizons spacecraft is on track to arrive at Pluto in 2015.
It is to the sheer size of Jupiter 11.2 times the size of our planet in which we puny Earthlings owe an abundance of gratitutde.
Jupiter's huge size and it equally large gravity acts as cosmic sentry pulling in all sorts of errant asteroids, rocks ordinarily heading for Earth, many of on collision course with out civilization, but instead take hold of these Earth-killers into its grasp, hurling them straight down into its crushing interior acting as a magnet for danger in protecting our pun little world from the hazards of space.
An hour after sunset, Jupiter is shining bright in the east in the constellation of Gemini.
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